Sylvain Tesson Quotes

I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

~ Sylvain Tesson

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

~ Sylvain Tesson

To be modern means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

~ Sylvain Tesson

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

~ Sylvain Tesson

The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.

~ Sylvain Tesson

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...

~ Sylvain Tesson