"An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds."

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Source : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.182, Pan Macmillan

Jon Krakauer

#Strong Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Land Quotes

“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.”
“To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.”
“I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.”
“Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.”
“The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.”
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.”
“I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.”

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