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Inspire You
Cheap Green RV Living
Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau


It is not the end of the physical body
that should worry us.
Rather, our concern must be
live while we're alive -
to release our inner selves from the spiritual death
that comes with living behind a facade
designed to conform to external definitions
of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries
that stretch our daily vision to include infinity,
nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a
spiritual life. Thomas More

And the day came
when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Earth and sky, woods and fields,
lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us
more than we can never learn from books.
John Lubbock

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal
and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Forget not that the earth
delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

For every person who has ever lived
there has come, at last, a spring he will never see.
Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

I love to think of nature as an
unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour,
if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life,
and behind it  our scientific accomplishments
fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh

Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

One of the most tragic things
I know about human nature
is that all of us tend to put off living.
We are all dreaming of some
magical rose garden over the horizon
instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming
outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear

Climb up on some hill at sunrise.  
Everybody needs perspective once in a while,
and you'll find it there.
Robb Sagendorph

All I want is to stand in a field
and to smell green, to taste air,
to feel the earth want me,
Without all this concrete hating me.
Phillip Pulfrey

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has
power to move you,
if the simple things of nature have a message that
you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse

I've made an odd discovery.
Every time I talk to a savant
I feel quite sure that happiness
is no longer a possibility.
Yet when I talk with my gardener,
I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

Once you have heard the lark,
known the swish of feet through hill-top grass
and smelt the earth made ready for the seed,
you are never again going to be fully happy
about the cities and towns that man carries
like a crippling weight upon his back.
Gwyn Thomas

You will find something
more in woods than in books.  
Trees and stones will teach you
that which you can never learn from masters.  
St. Bernard

Sieze the Day: Live
When it comes down to dying,
I want to know what it is like to have really lived.
Lou Whittaker

Every man dies.
Not every man really lives.  
Braveheart

Life is not lost by dying;
life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day,
in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét

To always be intending to live a new life,
but never find time to set about it -
this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking
from one day to another
till he be starved and destroyed.
Walter Scott

To change one's life:  Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.  No exceptions.
William James

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

Death twitches my ear.  
"Live," he says, "I am coming."
Virgil

Many people die with their music still in them.
Why is this so?  
Too often it is because
they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Use your health,
even to the point of wearing it out.
That is what it is for.
Spend all you have before you die;
do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Jack London

We are always getting ready to live
but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real generosity toward the future
in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden


Follow Your Dreams
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Happy are those who dream dreams
and are willing to pay the price
to make them come true.
Anonymous

You'll never achieve your dreams
if they don't become goals.
Anonymous  

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Whatever you can do,
or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man cannot discover new oceans
unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide

It's the most unhappy people
who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony
which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de St. Exupery
I love quotes! I know there are people who don't, but I have found them
extremely helpful. There are two kind of people who can benefit greatly
from quotes, people who over-think everything, and people who are lazy
thinkers. I won't tell you which I am, but suffice it to say I try to live my life
by simple quotes that have stood the test of time. At their best they cut
through all the fog and indecision and give clear, concise directions as how
to best live my life. Here are some of my favorites that pertain to the cheap,
green, RV lifestyle. I hope they help you as much as they have helped me.
Possessions
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions,
but in the fewness of my wants.
J. Brotherton

In our rich consumers' civilization
we spin cocoons around ourselves
and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner

It is preoccupation with possessions,
more than anything else,
that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
If you have them, you have to take care of them!
There is great freedom in simplicity of living.
It is those who have enough but not too much who
are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim

Everything we possess
that is not necessary for life or happiness
becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes
that we do not add to it.
Robert Brault,

To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening
saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest
or a wildflower in spring
- these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs

The ability to simplify means
to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann

I like to walk about among
the beautiful things that adorn the world;
but private wealth I should decline,
or any sort of personal possessions,
because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Have nothing in your houses
that you do not know to be useful
or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris


Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, simplify, simplify! ...
Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
Henry Thoreau

Anything you cannot relinquish
when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you,
and in this materialistic age
a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

In our rich consumers' civilization
we spin cocoons around ourselves
and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner

Frugality is one of the most beautiful
and joyful words in the English language,
and yet one that we are culturally cut off from
understanding and enjoying.
The consumption society has made us feel that
happiness lies in having things,
and has failed to teach us
the happiness of not having things.
Elise Boulding

Happiness consists, not in possessing much,
but in being content with what we possess.
He who wants little always has enough.
Zimmermann

Adventure
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as
a whole experience it
. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run
than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

The test of an adventure is that
when you're in the middle of it,
you say to yourself,
"Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess
I wish I were sitting quietly at home."
And the sign that something's wrong with you
is when you sit quietly at home
wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Thornton

Any coward can sit in his home
and criticize a pilot
for flying into a mountain in a fog.
But I would rather, by far,
die on a mountainside than in bed.
What kind of man would live
where there is no daring?
And is life so dear
that we should blame men for dying in adventure.
Is there a better way to die?
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

Never forget that life can only be
nobly inspired and rightly lived
if you take it bravely and gallantly,
as a splendid adventure
in which you are setting out
into an unknown country,
to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade,
to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant

The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakes
lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake
is the very fact that he tries nothing,
does nothing, except criticize those who do things.
David M. Shoup

A ship is safe in harbor,
but thats not what ships are built for. "
John A. Shedd

Life is NOT a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming -- ’WOW, what a ride!!! "
Anonymous

Life is a fatal adventure.
It can only have one end.
So why not make it as far-ranging
and free as possible.
Alexander Eliot

Without adventure
civilization is in full decay. "
Alfred North Whitehead

Every man can transform the world
from one of the monotony and drabness
to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace

Money
Society drives people crazy with lust
and calls it advertising.
John Lahr

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

We make ourselves rich
by making our wants few.
Henry Thoreau

If a man walks in the woods
for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods
and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it.
There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more a man has, the more he wants.
Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.
If it satisfies one want,
it doubles and trebles that want another way.
Benjamin Frankin

Travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice,
bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
Mark Twain

The world is a book
and those who do not travel
read only one page.
St. Augustine

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego
and when we escape like the squirrels
in the cage of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright.
But things will happen to us so
we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in.
D. H. Lawrence

To awaken quite alone in a strange town
is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark

Travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on,
deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard

Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I think that travel comes
from some deep urge to see the world,
like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog
to see the moon when it is full.
Lord Dunsany
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