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Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
Among her sayings recorded in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers are: [4] "I put out my foot to ascend the ladder, and I place death before my eyes before going up it." "It is good to give alms for men's sake. Even if it is only done to please men, through it one can begin to seek to please God." Among her saying recorded in the Mataericon are: [2]
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an American writer, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness.For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario.
The collection now known as the Systematic Collection began to emerge a century later (c. 500 AD) and features sayings from the Alphabetic Collection and the Anonymous Sayings, combined and systematically ordered under twenty-one chapters. This collection contains about 1200 items and therefore does not completely combine the two older collections.
Or traditionally, "the voice of one crying in the wilderness". A quotation of the Vulgate, Isaiah 40:3, and quoted by St. John the Baptist in Mark 1:3 and John 1:23). Motto of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. vox nihili: voice of nothing: The phrase denotes a useless or ambiguous statement. vox populi: voice of the people
Twenty-five years later, partly as a result of his efforts, The Wilderness Society helped gain passage of the Wilderness Act. The Act was passed by Congress in 1964 and legally defined wilderness areas of the United States and protected some nine million acres (36,000 km 2 ) of federal land from development, road building and motorized ...
Originating in the mid-20th century, the concept started as a movement in the United States in response to ecological damage caused by wilderness recreation. [1] In 1994, the non-profit Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics was formed to create educational resources around LNT, and organized the framework of LNT into seven principles. [2]
Bill Mason in a canoe.. In his review of James Raffan's 1996 biography of Mason, Michael Peake refers to Mason as "the patron saint of canoeing." To many Canadian and American paddlers and canoeists growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, his series of instructional films were the introduction to technique and the canoeing experience.