Quotes from Richard Proenneke

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger