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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
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Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
He tackled cliffs that more than once left him dangling halfway between talus and rim….From his camps by the water pockets or the canyons or high on the timbered ridges of Navajo Mountain he wrote long, lush, enthusiastic letters to his family and friends, damning the stereotypes of civilization, chanting his barbaric adolescent yawp into the teeth
... See moreJon Krakauer • Into the Wild
COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
Aldous Huxley • BRAVE NEW WORLD
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 the best….I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
A house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird’s nest, and you cannot go in at the front door and out at the back without seeing some of its inhabitants; where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell, and told to make yourself at
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Mike Davis • Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.