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  • Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore. -- Demetri Martin
  • Canoe plus waterfall equals I don't go camping anymore. -- Demetri Martin
  • Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring. -- Will Hobbs
  • While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb. -- Ranulph Fiennes
  • The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
  • My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. -- Burt Shavitz
  • With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents. --
  • It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. -- John Millington Synge
  • Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off. -- Burt Shavitz
  • I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish. -- Jay Cooke
  • I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? -- David Suzuki
  • My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test. -- Will Hobbs
  • I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot. -- Colin Angle
  • Every man paddles his own canoe. -- Frederick Marryat
  • You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe! -- Charles Poliquin
  • And he paddled away in his douche canoe. -- Joe Hill
  • You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you -- Groucho Marx
  • I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. -- John Dos Passos
  • Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. -- Pierre Berton
  • Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. -- Sigurd F. Olson
  • Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. -- Alan Alda
  • When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. -- Sigurd F. Olson
  • If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. -- Orrin Woodward
  • As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. -- Katharine Hepburn
  • If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe. -- Sarah T. Bolton
  • A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go. -- William J Doherty
  • Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a riverthat's romance. -- Brandi L. Bates
  • Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. -- Oren Lyons
  • It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
  • I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can. -- Jarod Kintz
  • The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. -- C. S. Lewis
  • There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it. -- Garrison Keillor
  • So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line. -- Arthur Lismer
  • . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. -- Aldo Leopold
  • Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he's endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It's good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you're in a canoe. -- Jimmy Fallon
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