Thursday, July 1, 2010

Happy Canada Day-now build a canoe

A true Canadian is one who can make love in a canoe without tipping-Pierre Berton

Give me a good canoe, a pair of Jibway snowshoes, my beaver, my family and 10,000 square miles of wilderness and I am happy-Grey Owl

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature-Pierre Elliott Trudeau