“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”

“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”