“...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.”

“I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future ...”

“I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”

“When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how ...”

“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?”

“It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.”

“If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.”

“It always amazes me when taking off from a stormy airport, how once you reach a certain altitude and get through the clouds, the sun shines as brightly as ever. If we learn to choose the experience...”

“It always amazes me when taking off from a stormy airport, how once you reach a certain altitude and get through the clouds, the sun shines as brightly as ever. If we learn to choose the experience...”

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he ...”

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”