“I hate this place. I mean, everybody says coming out to nature is supposed to be a poetic and inspiring experience, right? What is so inspiring about bugs and insects and snakes and creatures of the night making all that racket? It's suffocating and it's vile, and it's full of rot.”
Virginya Keehne - Melissa Danson

“This river can kill you in a thousand ways.”
Jon Voight - Paul Serone

- Captain Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon: You know what's out there? Wind and rain, and some damn big waves, reefs and rocks, sandbars, and enough fog and night to hide it all.
- Dean Preston: So why the hell do it?
- Captain Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon: It builds character Mr. Preston of which you are in desperately short supply.
Jeff Bridges - Sheldon 'Skipper'
Eric Michael Cole - Dean Preston

“You can die out here. You’re out in the wilderness, far away from anybody. You can die out here. Don’t you understand that? You have to take it seriously. You have to have a way to get help. You have to be able to change your own tire.”

Swankie - Swankie

“- Marty O'Reilly: I put the special candle out there that repels all the bugs, every species but one.
- Wally Jatczak: Marty, what species is that?
- Marty O'Reilly: The saber toothed fly.”
Carroll O'Connor - Marty O'Reilly
William Bronder - Wally Jatczak