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“To an adventurous spirit any place is an unexplored land”
― Tom Montgomery Fate, Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild

“I would like to learn how to do that--to recognize the gift of enough.”
― Tom Montgomery Fate, Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild

“Als het verkeerd is om een menselijk wezen in elkaar te slaan, hem zijn nagels uit te trekken, hem onvrijwillig aan medische experimenten bloot te stellen, hem zonder proces op te sluiten of ter dood te brengen, is het net zo goed moreel fout om een dier op deze manier te behandelen. Hoe hoger ontwikkeld het dier is, des te erger kan het lijden, en aangezien het wordt gehinderd door de dubbele handicap dat het onze taal niet spreekt en geen stemrecht heeft, hebben wij een dubbele plicht om het te beschermen. Als dieren onnodig verwondingen oplopen, gevangen worden genomen of sterven, is dat de smet op ons allemaal.”
― Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Famous for Born Free

“Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out."

"Yes, sir," Andrews said.

"Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you — that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because you're the only one that knows the secret; only then it's too late. You're too old."

"No," Andrews said. A vague terror crept from the darkness that surrounded them, and tightened his voice. "That's not the way it is."

"You ain't learned, then," McDonald said. "You ain't learned yet. . . .”
― John Williams, Butcher's Crossing

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Geen mens weet waartoe hij in staat is, voor hij alles geprobeerd heeft.”
― Willem Frederik Hermans, Nooit meer slapen

“Adventure is not in a guidebook and Beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find.”
― Terry Russell

“Men are destroyed, and destroy each other, over basic things – money or hatred. On the other hand a really complicated riddle never pushed anyone to violence; either you found the answer or gave up looking. Clouds were riddles too, but dangerously simple ones. If you zoomed in on one part of a cloud and took a photograph, then enlarged the image, you would find that a cloud’s edges seemed like another cloud, and those edges yet another, and so on. Every part of a cloud, in other words, reiterates the whole. Therefore each cloud might be called infinite, because its very surface is composed of other clouds, and those clouds of still other clouds, and so forth. Some learn to lean over the abyss of these brainteasers; others lose their balance and tumble into its eternal blackness.”
― STEPHANE AUDEGUY, La teoría de las nubes