Poet Laureate of Geocaching

[Guest Anton]

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Anton, 11H/13F

[Guest EraSeek]

YES! YES! YES! Though there are others that may qualify at times. Read the first few lines in my "Winds of Time" cache. They are by Mark Twain.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=2573

[Guest Cisupete]

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. (from El Dorado)

 

------ Robert Louis Stevenson

[Guest celts]

Can't get any better than the last one!!!!

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Originally posted by Cisupete:

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. (from El Dorado)

 

------ Robert Louis Stevenson

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[Guest PneumaticDeath]

I have one further nominee: Robert Frost.

 

While not always strictly apropos, look at the titles of some of his poems: The Road Not Taken ("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.."), Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, The Need of Being Versed In Country Things, and two more to give you pause On Going Unnoticed In a Disused Graveyard.

 

I didn't even have to mention Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

 

-- Mitch

 

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[Guest PneumaticDeath]

I have one further nominee: Robert Frost.

 

While not always strictly apropos, look at the titles of some of his poems: The Road Not Taken ("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.."), Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, The Need of Being Versed In Country Things, and two more to give you pause On Going Unnoticed In a Disused Graveyard.

 

I didn't even have to mention Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

 

-- Mitch

 

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[Guest Markwell]

Aaron Copeland arranged the Shaker tune of Simple Gifts and put that folk song on the map. Although not oringially penned by Copeland, the lyrics contain the phrases...

 

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free

'Tis a gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place that's right

'twill be in the valley of love and delight.

 

When true simplicity is gained

To bow and to bend we shant be ashamed

To turn, turn will be our delight

And by turning, turning we come 'round right.

 

I also like his Fanfare for Common Man as a metaphor for the release of Selective Availability.

[Guest Markwell]

Aaron Copeland arranged the Shaker tune of Simple Gifts and put that folk song on the map. Although not oringially penned by Copeland, the lyrics contain the phrases...

 

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free

'Tis a gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place that's right

'twill be in the valley of love and delight.

 

When true simplicity is gained

To bow and to bend we shant be ashamed

To turn, turn will be our delight

And by turning, turning we come 'round right.

 

I also like his Fanfare for Common Man as a metaphor for the release of Selective Availability.

[Guest Anton]

Well, it isn't poetry, but I like the quote:

 

"He that has patience may compass anything."

 

François Rabelais (c.1490-1553)

 

http://www.bartleby.com/100/730.29.html

[Guest EraSeek]

Yes, I thought Robert Frost should certainly be in there for the running somewhere. When I mentioned it to my wife she suggested Ogden Nash or Lewis Carrol (you know the down the rabbit-hole guy). Sorry I did stop to look for quotes on those.

[Guest bunkerdave]

This has to be one of the best threads I have ever seen started. Keep it going.

 

To blaspheme:

 

"What profiteth it a man if he gain a cache and loseth his GPS?"

 

Or something like that.

[Guest bunkerdave]

This has to be one of the best threads I have ever seen started. Keep it going.

 

To blaspheme:

 

"What profiteth it a man if he gain a cache and loseth his GPS?"

 

Or something like that.

[Guest makaio]

Speaking from experience (I lost my Garmin 12XL on a cache hunt), the answer be...a new eTrex!

[Guest Anton]

Someone should make this a new topic, but here's my sad story.

 

I lost a Garmin 12MAP on a cache hunt. Ever seen a grown geocacher cry? I have.

 

That was after replacing my first 12MAP when it was stolen out of my truck in a break-in, along with my laptop, digital camera, 35mm camera, and ham radio. Do we have any insurance agents here? Are you offering GCer insurance yet?

 

Anton, 11H/13F

[Guest raygun_88]

My recommendation would more appropriately fall into a Geocacher Pulitzer Prize nomination...Douglas Adams and his increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe trilogy [it ended at 5 books].

 

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

 

--from Mostly Harmless

[Guest navdog]

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be "

 

- Douglas Adams

[Guest Ttepee]

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

by the Fridge Magnet Guy

[Guest PneumaticDeath]

"Experience is something everybody wants to have, but nobody wants to get."

This was said by one of H.L. Menken, Ambrose Bierce, or Mark Twain, but I can't remember which....

 

-- Mitch

[Guest EraSeek]

Here's something to recite while looking for caches out here in the Cascades:

 

The Abominable Snowman

by Ogden Nash

 

I?ve never seen an abominable snowman,

I?m hoping not to see one,

I?m also hoping, if I do,

That it will be a wee one.

[Guest Cisupete]

After a long day of geocaching in the rain forests of Indiana and Illinois, my nominee for today, without hesitation is :

 

D.H. Lawrence, for his poem "The Mosquito"

 

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/dhl10.html

[Guest Show Me The Cache]

JOHN LENNON from the song HOW? from the IMAGINE album:

 

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?

 

J.R.R.TOLKEIN:

Not all those who wander are lost.

 

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