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1. "Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing." ~ Tim Cahill

2. "Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn." ~ Tim Cahill

3. "Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it." ~ Tim Cahill

4. "I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure." ~ Tim Cahill

5. "In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck." ~ Tim Cahill

6. "New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences." ~ Tim Cahill

7. "The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering." ~ Tim Cahill

8. "You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel." ~ Tim Cahill

9. "You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write." ~ Tim Cahill

10. "Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other." ~ Tim Cahill

11. "In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten." ~ Tim Cahill

12. "Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth." ~ Tim Cahill

13. "I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it." ~ Tim Cahill

14. "In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'" ~ Tim Cahill

15. "In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good." ~ Tim Cahill

16. "A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles." ~ Tim Cahill

17. "A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely." ~ Tim Cahill

18. "Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis." ~ Tim Cahill

19. "Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer' has little meaning. But exploration is nothing more than a faray into the unknown, and a four-year old child, wandering about along in the department store, fits the definition as well as the snow-blind man wandering across the Khyber Pass. The explorer is the person who is lost." ~ Tim Cahill

20. "That's why the words "Let's go!" are intrinsically courageous. It's the decision to go that is, in itself, entirely intrepid." ~ Tim Cahill

21. "When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free" ~ Tim Cahill

22. "The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies." ~ Tim Cahill

23. "Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us." ~ Tim Cahill

24. "It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said." ~ Tim Cahill

25. "Elk were mating now - The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving the winter. "It would be better for the elk," Dave said as we prepared dinner, "if the females just gave it up."All three women stared at him. A silence ensued. Dave said, "Or I could be wrong." ~ Tim Cahill

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It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?"
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