Randy Wayne White Quotes

• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

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  Anchors, Three, Four

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• A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

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  Party, Ideas, Suffering

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• Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

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  Morality, Linked

  Randy Wayne White (2004). “Everglades”, p.74, Penguin

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• Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.

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  Real, Adventure, America

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• A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.

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  Notebook, Memories, Simple

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• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

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  Florida, Ideas, Labyrinth

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• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

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  My Family, Cooks, Superb

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• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

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  Writing, Doors, Rooms

  "Randy Wayne White: Fishing Guide To Crime Writer". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 24, 2012.

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• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

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  Book, Character, Long Ago

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• My aunts still try to fatten me up.

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  Aunt, Trying, Stills

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