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 street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

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 longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

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.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

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

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

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 live.