Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Paul Gruchow

Born: May 23, 1947
Died: February 22, 2004 (aged 56)
Bio: Paul Gruchow was an American author, editor, and conservationist from Montevideo, Minnesota.
Known for:
- The necessity of empty places (1988)
- Journal of a prairie year (1985)
- Grass Roots (1995)
- Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir
- Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild (1997)