The Impenetrable Forest Quotes

“When a man returns home and finds for the moment nothing to struggle against, the vast resolve, which has sustained him through a long and difficult enterprise, dies away, burning as it sinks in the heart; and thus the greatest successes are often accompanied by a peculiar melancholy.”
― Thor Hanson, The Impenetrable Forest: Gorilla Years in Uganda

“Bwindi’s biodiversity surpasses that of all six New England states combined, yet is found in a single forest less than a tenth the size of greater Boston.”
― Thor Hanson, The Impenetrable Forest: Gorilla Years in Uganda

“Living in Africa, I soon came to realize that impatience may be an entirely Western phenomenon. Ugandans approach time from a fundamentally different perspective, not as a commodity to be spent or wasted, but as an event that unfolds continually, regardless of circumstances.”
― Thor Hanson, The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda