155 Quotes by Gary Paulsen

But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it – indeed, still can’t – and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and part of the forest, the woods.

He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again.

Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.

The answer to his problem had come to.

If his mother hadn’t begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn’t be here now. He.

He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he’d thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn’t think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn’t come.

And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens – just the way things that seem good for you can turn out bad, bad as dirt.

But perhaps more than his body was the change in his mind, or in the way he was – was becoming. I am not the same, he thought. I see, I hear differently.

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