"The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing."

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Source : Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

Grey Owl

#Inspiration Quotes #Simple Quotes #Men Quotes

“He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.149, Penguin
“It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.”

Source : "Dear Mariella" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2010.
“There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.”
“No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.”
“Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.”
“Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.”

Source : Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.213, Indie Ink Publishing
“It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.”

Source : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1969). “Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years”
“I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.”

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