I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return..

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; ….

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highwa….

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true lon….

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the stree….

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life..

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep..

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥.

I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do ev….

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax..

While I am alive, I intend to live..

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to liv….

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music;….

I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its r….

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty..

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear..

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is..

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time..

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly..