Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3101 – May 19, 2024

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what needs to be done and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

—GEORGE S. PATTON, US Army General, 1885–1945


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3100 – May 18, 2024

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A bike is not only an appropriate means of travel in many situations, it’s also extremely enjoyable at the same time, to say nothing of the health benefits of rhythmic exercise for your heart and lungs.

—STEVE SHERMAN, Bike Hiking, 1974


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3099 – May 17, 2024

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Wilderness enough to be the preservation of the world still exists. We can enjoy it today and save it for coming generations. Invite them to a clean, unspoiled world. If we do, they will want to know about us. That is real immortality. But if we don’t leave our descendants a habitable life-affirming world, we’ll deserve to be forgotten, and their willingness to forget would be our eternal death.

—CALVIN RITSTRUM, Chips From a Wilderness Log, 1978


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3098 – May 16, 2024

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Walking is both a cornerstone of a functional society, and a deeply political act in its own right.

—ANTONIA MALCHIK, A Walking Life, 2019


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3097 – May 15, 2024

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Our ageing society presents a challenge for urban design, without doubt, but small, marginal and continual adaptations in walkability design can pay huge dividends both for society at large and for individuals in particular.

—SHANE O’MARA, In Praise of Walking, 2019


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3096 – May 14, 2024

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So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way.

—HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3095 – May 13, 2024

Sticker & T-shirt Sayings:

I Love Trails


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3094 – May 12, 2024

Slogan:

Renewing Body & Spirit, Inspiring Passion For The Land

—USDA FOREST SERVICE, A Framework for Sustainable Recreation


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3093 – May 11, 2024

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Where you find a people who believe that man and nature are indivisible, and that survival and health are contingent upon an understanding of nature and her processes, these societies will be very different from ours, as will be their towns, cities and landscapes.

—IAN MCHARG, Design With Nature, 1969


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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #3092 – May 10, 2024

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…you can’t always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.

—JOHN O’LEARY, On Fire, 2016


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