Folks, creatures, crusaders! It’s been a wonderful year for OutdoorEnd. Aside from the normal traveling, exploring, learning and writing, this year has been especially great for all things outdoors! It’s been a pleasure sharing experiences and places with you all though the blog and getting people out into the great outdoors to experience everything it has to offer.
Take with you into the new year a sense of pride, a sense of love, and a sense of family as we are all connected here in the outdoors world, and we are all proud of the paths we’ve chosen. Here is a great quote, from a great man, a hero of past and future generations and a lover of the wilderness.
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey
Happy holidays from OutdoorEnd!
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