Canoing Quotes

Canoing Quotes
Anyone who says they like portaging is either a liar or crazy. - Bill Mason 1929-1988
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I think it much better that, as we all go along together, that every man paddle his own canoe. - Captain Marryat
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. - Henry David Thoreau
A canoe is a canoe is a canoe. - Anonymous
If there's a place, Canoe there. - Brent Kelly
A true Canadian is one who can make love in a canoe without tipping. - Pierre Berton
Love many, trust a few, and always paddle your own canoe. - Anonymous
Anyone can make love in a canoe, it's a Canadian who knows enough to take out the centre thwart! - Philip Chester
Give me a good canoe, a pair of Jibway snowshoes, my beaver, my family and 10,000 square miles of wilderness and I am happy. - Archibald Belaney, aka Grey Owl
To canoe is to be moved. - Doug E. Bell
The romantic life of each colony also has a special flavour - Australian rhyme is a poetry of the horse; Canadian, of the canoe. - William Douw Lighthall
There is nothing, absolutely nothing Half so much worth doing As simply messing about in boats. - 'Wind in the Willows'
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. - Aldo Leopold
…perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters…glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. - Aldo Leopold
Sea Canoeing is 80% mental, and 20% physical. - Laurie Ford
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. - Henry David Thoreau
One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe. - Hawaiian Saying
It is wonderful how well watered this country is.... Generally, you may go any direction in a canoe, by making frequent but not very long portages. - Henry David Thoreau
It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. - Henry David Thoreau
How they got a cat up there I do not know, for they are as shy as my aunt about entering a canoe. I wondered that she did not run up a tree on the way; but perhaps she was bewildered by the very crowd of opportunities. - Henry David Thoreau
Paddle solo, sleep tandem. - Caroline Owen
Canoe for good health!! - Wild Bill
Mind over matter, canoe over water - Kevin Quischan
Never trust a person who's feet are dry and he is paddling a canoe. - Anonymous
You know you are kayaking when you can't go over a bridge without looking for water under it. - Anonymous
May your portages be short and the breezes gentle on your back. - Anonymous