The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List
Quotation of the Day for December 17, 2003
"We hope that as we walk our chosen place will act on us in turn--a light wind at dawn, the scent of pine pitch, the roar of the creek.
"When you're data-fying--checking a set of coordinates, a bearing, an altitude, a temperature, a barometric pressure--in physical point of fact you're hunched over staring at digits on a tiny screen.
"If you step off the trail to unfold your pocket computer and uplink through your cell phone to check your e-mail for a message from your broker, your heart is a thousand miles away.
"And the wilderness can have no part in you."
- Chip Rawlins, in The Complete Walker IV.
Submitted by: Terry Labach
Nov. 25, 2003