Tracks QUOTES Flashcards
‘I had become…
‘I had become emotionally remote from outsiders.’
‘I really…
‘I really did enjoy the company of animals better than people.’
‘I felt…
‘I felt such a sense of relief and belonging that I needed nothing and no one.’
‘I was beginning…
‘I was beginning to understand that being alone got awfully boring sometimes, and that I needed people, wanted them.’
‘I wanted…
‘I wanted to do this thing on my own without outside interference or help. An attempt at a pure gesture of independence.’
‘The trip…
‘The trip was beginning to lose its simplicity.’
‘The preparations…
‘The preparations had been… the most important part of the event.’
‘I felt very…
‘I felt very small and very alone suddenly in this great emptiness.’
‘The journey…
‘The journey had lost all meaning… was an empty and foolish gesture.’
‘I’ve never…
‘I’ve never needed a friend like this before.’
‘I felt restless…
‘I felt restless and wanted to push on and this eventually outweighed the pleasure of being with people I cared for.’
‘Our greatest…
‘Our greatest communication lay in the sheer joy in our surroundings.’
‘The land…
‘The land was not wild but tame, bountiful, benign, giving’
‘Capacity for…
‘Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.’
‘It was such…
‘It was such a relief to be free of disguises and prettiness and attractiveness.’
‘The one…
‘The one so archetypally paranoid, grasping, destructive, the other so sane.’
‘We relax…
‘We relax back into the moulds of habit. They bind us.’
‘I felt the trip…
‘I felt the trip had ended itself… like the last page of a novel.’
‘Done something…
‘Done something courageous and outside the possibilities.’
‘Nothing was…
‘Nothing was as important as freedom.’
‘I wanted to…
‘I wanted to [rid] myself of mental baggage.’
