Finding Your Way in the Outdoors Quotes

“Human sense of direction, if anything, is a sense of wrong direction.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting

“Ordinarily one need not be preoccupied with time in the woods. Indeed, something is to be said for going there to forget it, but it is well to develop a habit of noting times for distances traveled.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting

“A map may become outdated when a newer version comes out, but the old one is never useless. With time a map becomes a graphic history of things as they were, and to the user a map is a friend to be treasured and a diary of past adventure.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting

“The idea is not to get your bearings periodically, but to never lose them.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting

“So here it is - the end of the trail at the end of the road - and the beginning of a startlingly real wilderness. Now the navigator finds that his craft is more than vigilant attention to map and compass. Something of the mountain man's ability is needed to turn a backyard navigator into a confident route-finder.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting

“Nature moves fast in obliterating man's scars.”
― Robert L. Mooers Jr., Finding Your Way in the Outdoors: Compass Navigation, Map Reading, Route Finding, Weather Forecasting