“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
Source: Poetry, Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 49
"In the Wilderness," lines 1-6, from Over the Brazier (1916), Part I: Poems Written Mostly at Charterhouse 1910-1914.
Poems
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.”
Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 95
Letter to the Very Reverend A. Martin, Vincennes, 1844-10-03.
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.
“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 188.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 157-158.
Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.”
Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)
