2. Nature
Man's role in Nature is the predominant theme of Into the Wild.
3. Quotes
I began my adult life with the hypothesis that it could be possible
to become a Stone Age native. For over 30 years, I programmed
and conditioned myself to this end. In the last 10 of it, I would say
I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional
reality of the Stone Age. But to borrow a Buddhist phrase,
eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. I learned
that it is not possible for human beings as we know them to live
off the land.
--Gene Rosellini
4. Quotes
Said he didn't want to see a single person, no airplanes, no sign of
civilization. He wanted to prove to himself that he could make it
on his own, without anybody else's help.
--Gaylord Stuckey
8. two different worlds
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the
result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the
consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in
conformity to higher principles.. . . The greatest gains and values
are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if
they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. . .
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and
indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-
dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
--Thoreau, Walden
