Paul Smith

“Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”
― Jon Krakauer

“There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.”
― Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way

“There's no question winter here can take a chunk out of you. Not like the extreme cold of the upper Midwest or the round-the-clock darkness of Alaska might, but rather the opposite. Here, it's a general lack of severity - monotonous flat gray skies and the constant drip-drip of misty rain - that erodes the spirit.”
― Dylan Tomine, Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table