Richard Proenneke quotes

“There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.”
-- Richard Proenneke

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“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.”
-- Richard Proenneke

Source : "Alone in the Wilderness". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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“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.”
-- Richard Proenneke

Source : "Alone in the Wilderness" by Bob Swerer Productions, Part 2 DVD,

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“Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.”
-- Richard Proenneke

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“I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in much the same way many of the big animals do. I would be long gone before anyone found me. My only wish would be that folks wouldn't spend a lot of time searching. When the time comes for a man to look his Maker in the eye, where better could the meeting be held than in the wilderness?”
-- Richard Proenneke

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“It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.”

“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.”

“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”

Source : Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

“I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.”

“I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.”

“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”

“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.

“There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.”