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Top 10 Daniel J. Rice Quotes (2025 Update)

Daniel J. Rice Quote: “If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.”

1. “If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.”

2. “The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.”

3. “I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.”

4. “When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.”

5. “The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.”

6. “It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.”

7. “I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “If happiness required me to ignore my thoughts and questions, then I hoped to never be happy.”

8. “If happiness required me to ignore my thoughts and questions, then I hoped to never be happy.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “Every man should wake up alone and spend thirty minutes outside. He should spend thirty minutes with the rising sun listening for birds while pacing back and forth in ponderous thought, with a cool breeze on his nose and his arms stretched into the open air. He should spend thirty minutes alone with whatever view is available. Then he should go back to sleep.”

9. “Every man should wake up alone and spend thirty minutes outside. He should spend thirty minutes with the rising sun listening for birds while pacing back and forth in ponderous thought, with a cool breeze on his nose and his arms stretched into the open air. He should spend thirty minutes alone with whatever view is available. Then he should go back to sleep.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”

10. “I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of cheap beer, and this too was exciting. There was no judgment in the wild, and so indulgences were plentiful. There were no regulators here and we were free to indulge in the deep intoxications that made our minds free.”

11. “We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of cheap beer, and this too was exciting. There was no judgment in the wild, and so indulgences were plentiful. There were no regulators here and we were free to indulge in the deep intoxications that made our minds free.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.”

12. “Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.”

13. “I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.”

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Daniel J. Rice Quote: “The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The river records to trail behind or before me, and covers everything as it flows. This mountain and this river are old, yet as I wade alone, they both appear young and new to me.”

14. “The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The river records to trail behind or before me, and covers everything as it flows. This mountain and this river are old, yet as I wade alone, they both appear young and new to me.”

— Daniel J. Rice

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