The forest is a teacher—if we are willing to learn.

我长期以来认为独立是生活的最大祝福，是每一种美德的基础。

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.