I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.
The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.
There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by. . . truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.