“A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine.”
Source: Trout Bum
“If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.”
“It always amazes me when taking off from a stormy airport, how once you reach a certain altitude and get through the clouds, the sun shines as brightly as ever. If we learn to choose the experience of joy in our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits, we will move in tune with the universe and dance in a flow of light and love, and remain above the clouds.”
“As long as you have time, do what you really want, because once the time runs out, nothing is left".”
“...we do not own these woods. They own us.”
Source: Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author
“It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday”
Source: Road to Ponemah: The Teachings of Larry Stillday
“We must stop seeing the natural world as a commodity and start seeing it as we would see a family member, something to love, protect, care for, and cherish.”
Source: TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
“...no other life form needed man, man needed all the others in which to survive.”
Source: TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
“The forest talks but a good hunter only hears it by learning its language.”
Source: TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
“On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink.”
Source: TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country