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01Undated

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.

Daniel J. Rice / quote

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02Undated

As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I have commonly found associated with people who spend most of their time outdoors.-from New River, in the anthology AWAKE IN THE WORLD

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03Undated

Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?

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04Undated

The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The river records to trail behind or before me, and covers everything as it flows. This mountain and this river are old, yet as I wade alone, they both appear young and new to me.

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05Undated

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

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06Undated

...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.

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07Undated

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hintof sadness.“You lost your mind a long time ago,” he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

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08Undated

Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul. The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.

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09Undated

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

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10Undated

I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.

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11Undated

The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.

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12Undated

This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.

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13Undated

This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to have been sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.

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14Undated

The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.

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15Undated

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

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16Undated

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

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17Undated

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

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18Undated

When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.

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19Undated

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.

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20Undated

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

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21Undated

If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones. If you have not seen a native trout rise in a crystalline pool beneath a shattering riffle, or a golden eagle spread its wings and cover you in shadow. If you have not seen the tree line recede to the top of a bare crested mountain. If you have not looked into a pair of wild eyes and seen your own reflection. Please, for the good of your soul, travel west.

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22Undated

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

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23Undated

I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.

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24Undated

The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.

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