"Be the Pig!?" Where
it all began...
The Chicken and the Pig
A chicken and a pig were
headed down the
street one day and noticed some children who looked as though they hadn't
eaten anything in days.
Moved with compassion, the chicken said to the pig, "I have an idea! Let's give these
poor
children a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs."
The pig contemplated the chicken's
suggestion and said, 'Well my friend, for you, that would involve merely
participation; but for me, it would involve a total commitment!"
Don't just
sit on the sidelines and watch. Be The Pig!!! Get involved! Commit!
What does all this have to do with adventure sports?
Take river running for an example. The river is the ultimate in commitment. The river never goes
back, it is always committed. River running brings this attitude to
the table. I have found that generally the people who run rivers are
completely committed and completely into the experience. Some of the
best friends I have, I met on the river.
If you want to know what being the pig is really all about, go run a
river!
More
Be The Pig quotes:
“Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape
your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern
and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from
home than a hundred miles on a road.”
--Bob Marshall
"Risk! Risk
Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other
voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face
the truth."
--
Katherine Mansfield
"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
" To
win without risk is to triumph without glory."
--
Pierre Corneille
"Men go back to the mountains, as they go back
to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea
they must face up, as did men of another age, to the challenge of
nature. Modern man lives in a highly synthetic kind of existence. He
specializes in this and that. Rarely does he test all his powers or
find himself whole. But in the hills and on the water the character
of a man comes out."
--Abram T. Collier
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--
Robert F. Kennedy
"Men may dam it and say that they have made a
lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide
its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In
time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will
be carried away piecemeal in the currents."
--Wendell Berry
"The policy of
being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
--
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
"Believe me, my young
friend, there is NOTHING-- absolutely nothing-- half so much worth
doing as simply messing about in boats. "Look here! If you've really
nothing else on hand this morning, supposing we drop down the river
together, and have a long day of it?"
--Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne."
--
Russian saying
"(The Grand
Canyon) is, of course, altogether valueless. It can be approached
only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do
but leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last,
to visit this profitless locality. It seems intended by nature that
the Colorado River, along the greater portion of its lonely and
majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed."
--Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, report to Congress on the Colorado
River, 1861
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far
one can go."
--T.S.
Eliot (1888-1965)
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small steps."
--
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British
Prime Minister
"When written in
Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One
represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
--
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!"
-- Anonymous
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