Let Them Be Eaten By Bears Quotes

“Any U.S. citizen is allowed to camp for free, up to fourteen days without moving (then he or she will need to move twenty-five miles to have another free fourteen-day campsite), on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or national forest land as long as the campsite is more than three hundred yards from a water source.”
― Peter Brown Hoffmeister, Let Them Be Eaten By Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors

“A friend of mine wrote an excellent article on parenting for Father Apprentice. It was called “Good Enough Is Good. Enough.,” the idea being that we can’t possibly be perfect as parents. We can try every day, give our best efforts, make the great attempts, and mostly we will be good parents. But sometimes we will fail. And that’s okay. Failure is okay. Good is enough. Period.”
― Peter Brown Hoffmeister, Let Them Be Eaten By Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors

“Instead of saying, “It’s too cold to swim,” we say, “The river’s water is less than sixty degrees so we must generate heat before and after swimming.”
― Peter Brown Hoffmeister, Let Them Be Eaten By Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors