“What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other.”

— Pierre Trudeau

"Exhaustion and Fulfillment : The Ascetic in a Canoe" (1944) http://www.canoe.ca/che-mun/102trudeau.html 
Context: 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.

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15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919–2000

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