Quotes from Everett Ruess

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.