Everett Ruess Quotes

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything…
• I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.
• I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to…
• I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You…
• I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now…
• I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
• I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
• But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
• I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal…
• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer…
• Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
• Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.
• While I am alive, I intend to live.
• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved…

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