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"To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?"
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"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
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"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"
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"You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy."
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"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."
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"I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box..."
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"I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty."
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"Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?"
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"Begin the journey. The whole world is waiting to help you."
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"Dare to travel on your defined path."
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"When you face a great problem in life, don't get scared. Consider it a great adventure. Ultimately it will shape your life with charm."
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"And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain."
Technology
"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
Courage
"A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis."
Nature
"So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally."
Solitude
"Not all questions can be answered."
Uncertainty
"Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation."
Innovation
"Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most."
Survival
"The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn."
Nature
"It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously."
Society
"I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings."
Optimism
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