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Jack London

“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”

Jack London, To Build a Fire
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To Build a Fire To Build a Fire by Jack London
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