Horace Kephart famous quotes

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
-- Horace Kephart

#Independent #Men #Weather

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
-- Horace Kephart

#Blessing #Order #Needs

The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
-- Horace Kephart

#Home #Men #Shelter

A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.
-- Horace Kephart

#Sleep #Men #Night

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.
-- Horace Kephart

#Dollars #Use #May

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
-- Horace Kephart

#Knives #Use #Dull

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.
-- Horace Kephart

#Art #Light #Utensils

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.
-- Horace Kephart

#School #Woods #Graduation Day

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.