John Muir on Wilderness
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.” –John Muir
Jean Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
C.S. Lewis on Names
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. —
C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Edward Abbey
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
David Foster Wallace on Americans
“There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group.” —David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again