A Boy Scout is a member of a Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations. Many of these use Boy Scouts in their name, including:
- World Organization of the Scout Movement
- List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
- Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d′Europe
- World Federation of Independent Scouts
- Order of World Scouts
- Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
- List of non-aligned Scouting organizations
- Many Scouting organizations have a Boy Scouts section, or Scout section, see: Age groups in Scouting and Guiding
Famous quotes containing the words boy and/or scouts:
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
When I see o’er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
their goods;
And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
armed men.”
—Bertrans De Born (fl. 12th century)