My Crowded Solitude Quotes

“In view of this spontaneous abundance, I think the natives held privately that in taking such pains to make things grow where already things grew of their own accord I was maybe a little mad. As for myself, there were times when, viewing the slow progress of the work, it came to me... that perhaps... there was a deal of truth that... inasmuch as his mode of thinking was perfectly direct, primeval man derived fuller satisfaction from life than civilized man”
― Jack McLaren, My Crowded Solitude