“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
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Context: I must close now, for I am obliged to go to Terre Haute, where I am called to court to explain my conduct and defend myself against accusations relative to counterfeit money that was said to have been received from me. One has to come to America to be treated thus! Sometimes I am so disheartened with this country that I feel as if I were carrying on my shoulders the weight of its highest mountains, and in my heart all the thorns of its wilderness. Pray for me occasionally that I may not lose courage; nay, more, that I may be brave enough to hold up others who falter sometimes.
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Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
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