Estwick Evans Quotes

• Deseaba adquirir la sencillez, los sentimientos nativos y las virtudes de la vida salvaje; despojarme de los hábitos facticios, los prejuicios y las imperfecciones de la civilización; ... y encontrar, en medio de la soledad y la grandeza de las tierras salvajes del oeste, puntos de vista más correctos de la naturaleza humana y de los verdaderos intereses del hombre. Preferí la estación de las nieves para experimentar el placer del sufrimiento y la novedad del peligro.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Views, Civilization

  Estwick Evans (2007). “Evans's Pedestrious Tour”, p.102, Applewood Books

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• How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Names, Silence

  Estwick EVANS (1819). “A Pedestrian Tour of four thousand miles throught the Western States and Territories during the winter and spring of 1818. Interspersed with Reflections”, p.102

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• When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.

  Estwick Evans

  Recuerdos, Pasión, Hombres

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