Carolina QuotesNo, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.
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Answer given when he was asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison. Interview with Ted Kaczynski
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“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this…” Ted Kaczynski. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-25A8AA0FC2. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/25a8aa0fc2
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