Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.
Sigurd F. OlsonAs 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.
Sigurd F. OlsonJoys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Sigurd F. OlsonIn wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.
Sigurd F. Olson