“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”

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John Muir

I was unwilling to be trapped by something that looked successful on the outside, but felt like shit on the inside.

Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew ... See more