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#1

“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: alchohol, alienated, misanthropy, parties, people

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#2

“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: freedom, mind, mountains, sanity, wilderness, wyoming

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#3

“There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his mind could it be freed.”
― Daniel J. Rice

tags: freedom, prose, tamed, understand, wild, wilderness

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#4

“What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: ability, dreams, illusions, man, power, success

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#5

“The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: existence, forest, happiness, life, truth

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#6

“This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to have been sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: assassins, men, pride, relationships, sex, women

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#7

“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: emerson, forest, john-muir, thoreau, truth-freedom, wild, wilderness

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#8

“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: alone, crazy, hesse, lost, mountains, sanity, solitude, wilderness

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#9

“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: faces, forest, knowledge, man, mankind, quote, thoreau, trees, wisdom, woods

9 likes

#10

“Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: forest, freedom, isolation, leaf, trees, truth, wild, wilderness, wisdom

7 likes

#11

“A man without enemies is a dishonest man.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: enemy, honesty, life, manhood, manliness, men, tough, wilderness

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#12

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Thornton Wilder

tags: epitaph, gratitude

375 likes

#13

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

1383 likes

#14

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”
― Edward Abbey

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#15

“In the holy solipsism
of the young

Now I can't walk thru a city
street w/out eying each
single pedestrian. I feel
thier vibe thru my
skin, the hair on my neck
--- it rises.”
― Jim Morrison , Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

tags: ambergean, me, rockandroll, yoga

26 likes

#16

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”
― Jack Kerouac

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#17

“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”
― Sigurd Olson

tags: necessity, wilderness

24 likes

#18

“The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach.
Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: future, infinity, past, stars, time, wilderness

4 likes

#19

“If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones. If you have not seen a native trout rise in a crystalline pool beneath a shattering riffle, or a golden eagle spread its wings and cover you in shadow. If you have not seen the tree line recede to the top of a bare crested mountain. If you have not looked into a pair of wild eyes and seen your own reflection. Please, for the good of your soul, travel west.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: book, camping, canyon, environment, mountains, nature, west, wilderness

16 likes

#20

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177071 likes

#21

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148398 likes

#22

“My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don't understand these images that are empowering me. My brush touches the canvas like photons to the earth, and a new world develops, free from my control, yet intrinsically dependent upon me. I am sweating with elation. I have no idea what I am doing, or what it is my hands are trying to see. There is so much strength in this clarity I am overpowered by the independence of it.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: art, artist, color, nature, painting, sun, sunlight, wilderness

5 likes

#23

“This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: assassins, love, man, pride, relationship, sex, women

4 likes

#24

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: hesse, rash, regret, truth

61 likes

#25

“I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: hesse, knowledge, siddhartha, unity, world

61 likes

#26

“Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul. The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: body, breathe, forest, happiness, life, mind, music, nature, people, soul, truth, wilderness

3 likes

#27

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”
― Henry Lawson

tags: humor

39 likes

#28

“There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

tags: beauty, environment, exist, imagination, landscape, marvel, nature, places, wilderness, world

15 likes

#29

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: atheism, religion

8908 likes

#30

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”
― John Muir, The Yosemite

34 likes

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