Everett Ruess Quotes

“I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”
― Everett Ruess, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

“At times, the impact of the natural world was "so far beyond my powers to convey that it almost made me despair.”
― Everett Ruess, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty