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Wisdom—Quotes From Baden-Powell| "As a youth, Robert Baden-
Powell greatly enjoyed the outdoors, learning about nature and
how to live in the wilderness. After returning as a military
hero from service in Africa, Baden-Powell discovered that
English boys were reading the manual about stalking and survival
in the wilderness that he had written for British soldiers.
Gathering ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard,
and others, he rewrote the manual as a nonmilitary nature skill
book and called it Scouting for Boys. To test his ideas, Baden-
Powell brought together 22 boys to camp at Brownsea Island, off
the coast of England. This historic campout was a success and
resulted in the advent of Scouting. Thus, the imagination and
inspiration of Baden-Powell, later proclaimed Chief Scout of the
World, brought Scouting to youth the world over." After his
marriage with Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell, his sister
Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his w