“It's 3:35am in the morning. I am standing in an open doorway, peering into a dark wood, wearing only a pair of thermal long johns. Snow is drifting onto my face from a moonlit sky. My heart is pounding. And I am holding an axe. Was it a falling tree branch that caused the noise that woke me? Or is t…”— Sam Parker, esquire.comTagged: Beautiful Isolation, Self-Efficiency, Aloneness, Solitude
“The final days pass the same as the first: I chop, I build fires, I eat, I sleep, I rest. Only I am thinking differently: my mind has clicked into a gear it has never used before. I begin to take pleasure in cutting the wood, getting better at it until I am dicing the logs like they're onions. Inste…”— Sam Parker, esquire.comTagged: How To Think, The Wisdom of Solitude
“And yet at the very same time, like most men, I am drawn to the idea of solitude. Why wouldn't I be? The story of man on his own – unlimited by society, discovering greater truths about life and nature – can be found everywhere. It's in the founding religious texts and the epic poems of the ancient…”— Sam Parker, esquire.comTagged: Aloneness, Solitude
“We began as disparate tribes, scattered across a giant and unfathomable earth, unaware each other even existed. We settled and built communities. We explored, and merged civilisations. As the population grew, we invented new ways to communicate with each other — always quicker and from greater dista…”— Sam Parker, esquire.comTagged: Aloneness, Solitude