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Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke, né le 4 mai 1916, mort le 20 avril 2003, est un naturaliste américain, qui vivait seul dans les montagnes des Twin Lakes en Alaska. Il a vécu dans un chalet de bois qu'il avait construit de ses propres mains. Richard Proenneke tenait un journal où il inscrivait de nombreuses données météorologiques et naturelles. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. mai 1916 – 20. avril 2003
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Richard Proenneke: Citations en anglais

“There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.”

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Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

“Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.”

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Alone in the Wilderness Part 2 DVD, Bob Swerer Productions

“It was good to be back in the wilderness again, where everything seems as peace. I was alone - just me and the animals. It was a great feeling - free once more to plan and do as I pleased. Beyond was all around me. My dream was a dream no longer. I suppose I was here because this was something I had to do - not just dream about it but do it. I suppose too I was here to test myself - not that I had never done it before but this time it was to be a more thorough and lasting examination. What was I capable of that I didn't know yet? Could I truly enjoy my own company for an entire year? And was I equal to everything this wild land could throw at me? I had seen its moods in late spring, summer, and early fall but what about the winter? Would I love the isolation then, with its bone-stabbing cold, its ghostly silence? At age 51, I intended to find out.”

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Richard Proenneke

Alone in the Wilderness DVD, Bob Swerer Productions
Paraphrase by Sam Keith for One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey Dick's exact words are not known.