Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.