#recreation

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#day #every #every day #get #i

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied. ↗

— Maria von Trapp

#exercise #imagination #recreation #age

So much for the recreational side of night life in the upper-bracket-income hotels of Manhattan. And in its root-origins the very word itself is implicit with implication: re-create. Analyze it and you'll see it also means to reproduce. But clever, ingenious Man has managed to sidetrack it into making life more livable. ("New York Blues") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#life

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#angeles #been #boys and girls #city #club

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. ↗

— Alan Parker

#difficult #make #movie #period #recreation

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. ↗

— Neil Postman

#recreation #age