“There is no substitute for actual personal experience and there is no short cuts to the gaining of it.”

(Langmuir, E. (2013). Mountaincraft and Leadership. p. 311)

“When I am on an expedition or a trips in the wilderness, in the woods… Kayak or climbing or whatever I do, I feel alive. Nature for me is a anchor into a world that doesn´t change. To be… To do what I do in the outdoors – in the nature, that´s for a lifetime.” Børge Ousland

“What fascinated me about the outdoor life is that it´s free and it´s natural and you can be with other people that you like. And you can move around in different terrains and you can do what you want. And it´s a sport and you use your body but it´s no competition in any way.” Hilde Bjørgaas

“Age does not have much to do with the outdoor life, you can do it all the time. You don´t have to walk far, you don´t have to run fast. You can be outside and the life can be spent out in the nature – it´s so useful for you. It gives you peace, a lot of rest and you are lucky if you can do that as a family. And you can continue to do it, until you´re not able to walk at all.” Jan Erik Blom

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“It is not the worst thing to enjoy a simply life.” – Bilbo Beutlin

“There is one thing that I keep asking myself: we humans are very intelligent indeed. Why do we fail at this one thing, namely to preserve the foundation of our life, the earth?”
Markus Mauthe from Greenpeace (own translation)

“We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

“What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look though each other´s eyes for an instant?”

“This is the only way we say, but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from the centre.”

“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

Henry David Thoreau

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and he bends you with his might
that his arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies,
so he loves also the bow that is stable.
Kahlil Gibran