Everett Ruess Quotes

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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

Everett Ruess

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

Everett Ruess

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

Everett Ruess

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work... or in the love of others. ♥

Everett Ruess

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

Everett Ruess

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

Everett Ruess

Everett Ruess

Everett Ruess

Born: March 28, 1914 (age 111)

Bio: Everett Ruess was a young artist, poet, and writer who explored nature including the High Sierra, California Coast and the deserts of the American southwest, invariably alone. His fate while traveling through a remote area of Utah has been a mystery for many years.

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