Who Wrote That? #26

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”

“There are so many roots to the tree of anger

“Some say the world will end in fire,

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race — that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”

“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”