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“The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.”
Daniel J. Rice“Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”
Molière, The Misanthrope“The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full days on their tables are their own,to me the distant is reality.A new world reaches to my very eyes,a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;their slightest feelings they must analyze,and all their words have got the common tune.The things I brought with me from far away,compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:in their great country they were living things,but here they hold their breath, as if for shame.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images“This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.Not there, because they loved it, it behavedas though it were. They always left some space.And in that clear unpeopled space they savedit lightly reared its head, with scarce a traceof not being there. They fed it, not with corn,but only with the possibilityof being. And that was able to confersuch strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.within the silver mirror and in her.”
Rainer Maria Rilke“We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of cheap beer, and this too was exciting. There was no judgment in the wild, and so indulgences were plentiful. There were no regulators here and we were free to indulge in the deep intoxications that made our minds free.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness“I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness“I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness“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.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness“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 we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness“I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”
Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness