Everett Ruess Quotes

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

  Everett Ruess

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
  Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

  Everett Ruess

  Song, Mountain Peaks, Wind

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• 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

  People, Acting, And Love

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

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  Two, Cost, Can Do

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Tired, Sky

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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

  Thinking, Fascination, Wilderness

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• Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary;
  That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
  Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases;
  Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

  Everett Ruess

  Dream, Lonely, Sick

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

  Everett Ruess

  Overwhelmed, Being Overwhelmed

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

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  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

  Everett Ruess

  Bears, I Can

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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

  Everett Ruess

  Goes On, Lasts, Return

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

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  Beautiful, Wish, Taste

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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

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  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• While I am alive, I intend to live.

  Everett Ruess

  Alive, I Am Alive

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

  Everett Ruess

  Drunk, Fiery

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• I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

  Everett Ruess

  Spots, Wander, Dies

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

  Everett Ruess

  Tired, Vagrants, Wilderness

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• Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

  Everett Ruess

  Want

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• 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

  Thinking, Depth, Too Much

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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