To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

- Sylvain Tesson

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

- Sylvain Tesson

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

- Sylvain Tesson

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

- Sylvain Tesson

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible.

- Sylvain Tesson