Dharma Bum
Hitchhiker
Jack Kerouac 1922-1969
From:
"The Dharma Bums"
"...nothing but trees, trees, a roaring sea of trees. It was paradise.""Walking in this country you could understand the perfect gems of haikus the Oriental poets had written, never getting drunk in the mountains or anything but just going along as fresh as children writing down what they saw without literary devices or fanciness of expression."
"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running--that's the way to live."
"But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."