What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois ; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature .

Author: Pierre Trudeau
Year: 1944
Year evidence: "Exhaustion and Fulfillment : The Ascetic in a Canoe" (1944)
Source: Quotes / 1944 — "Exhaustion and Fulfillment : The Ascetic in a Canoe" (1944)
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