[pct-l] More Quotes

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

"Sincere words are not beautiful,
Beautiful words are not sincere.
He who knows is not learned,
He who is learned does not know.
He who is good does not have much,
He who has much is not good.

The sage does not hoard.
The more he does for others,
         the more he has himself;
The more he gives to others,
         the more his own bounty increases."



"Thirty spokes converge on a single hub,
but it is in the space where there is nothing
that the usefulness of the cart lies.

Clay is molded to make a pot,
but it is in the space where there is nothing
that the usefulness of the clay pot lies.

Cut out doors and windows to make a room,
but it is in the spaces where there is nothing
that the usefulness of the room lies.

Therefore,

Benefit may be derived from something,
but it is in nothing that we find usefulness."

                              both of these are from Tao Te Ching, est. ~300 
B.C.


The PCT is a path of approximately 7 million steps
but it is in the space just one millimeter above the path
that the purpose and value of the resource lies.

Greg "Strider" Hummel
(who took 6 moons to thru-hike!  Is this where Ron Moak got the name for his 
company?)