Outward Bound (OB) is an international, non-profit, independent, outdoor education organization with approximately 40 schools around the world and 200,000 participants per year. Outward Bound programs aim to foster the personal growth and social skills of participants by using challenging expeditions in the outdoors.
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Famous quotes containing the words outward bound, outward and/or bound:
“Calling the traveller now, the outward bound:
O not for long, they cry, O not for long....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Men look on knowledge which they learn—or might learn—from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor’s palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“In the word of no master am I bound to believe.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)