I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.