There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but Nature more...
Lord Byron
The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up...
You don't need human relationships to be happy
God has placed it all around us.
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows,
and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
Now I don't know much about the sea,
but I do know that that's the way it is here.
And I also know how important it is in life
not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.
To measure yourself at least once.
To find yourself at least once
in the most ancient of human conditions.
Facing the blind death stone alone,
with nothing to help you
but your hands and your own head.
INTO THE WILD
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