And if that kind of a soul pleases you, don't go to the woods. It will be only a place of mosquitos, and general wetness, and discomfort. You won't care for it. You will hate it. But if you are willing to get wet and stay wet - to get cold and stay cold - to be bruised, and scuffed, and bitten - to be hungry and thirsty, and to have your muscles strained and sore from unusual taxation: if you will welcome all these things, not once, but many times, for the sake of moments of pure triumph and that larger luxury which comes with the comfort of the camp and the conquest of the wilderness, then go!

The wilderness will welcome you, and teach you, and take you to its heart. And you will find your own soul there; 
and the discovery will be worth while!"