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If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.
Ted Trueblood / Writer
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If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.
⇛ Ted Trueblood (Writer)

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The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

Ted Trueblood Writer

Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

Ted Trueblood Writer

If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood Writer

Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.

Ted Trueblood Writer

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Alan Cohen Writer

As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.