“What does a person do in a place like this, so far away and alone? For one thing, he watches the weather—the stars, the snow, and the fire. These are the books he reads most of all. And everything that he does, from bringing in firewood and buckets of snow, to carrying the waste water back outdoors, requires that he stand in the open, away from his walls, out of his man-written books and his dreaming head for a while. As I stand here, refreshed by the stillness and closeness of the night, I think it is a good way to live.”
-John Haines
“The Stars, the Snow, the Fire”
-John Haines
“The Stars, the Snow, the Fire”
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“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that’s what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.”
— Ted Kaczynski, when asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison.
— Ted Kaczynski, when asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison.
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