Everett Ruess

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would…

— Everett Ruess

I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend…

— Everett Ruess

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do…

— Everett Ruess

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

— Everett Ruess

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the…

— Everett Ruess

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

— Everett Ruess

“I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at…

— Everett Ruess

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

— Everett Ruess

“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,…

— Everett Ruess

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty,…

— Everett Ruess

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,…

— Everett Ruess

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to…

— Everett Ruess

“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly.”

— Everett Ruess

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

— Everett Ruess

“I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a…

— Everett Ruess

“As to this half-baked pother about my always feeling inferior in the presence of college graduates, that fear is groundless too. I…

— Everett Ruess

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

— Everett Ruess

I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail…

— Everett Ruess

“I was sorry, though, that our intimacy, like many things that are and will be, had to die with a dying fall.…

— Everett Ruess

While I am alive, I intend to live.

— Everett Ruess

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

— Everett Ruess

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

— Everett Ruess

“As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather…

— Everett Ruess

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

— Everett Ruess

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why…

— Everett Ruess