The face of the Earth itself was for the most part a veritable wilderness, wherein one wandered as in vast solitudes.Jack London
There was a silence as of the grave. Underneath, he could hear the gurgle and sucking of the current. For a few heartbeats he listenedJack London
Men sometimes died before their eyes, yet never brought home the revelation of human mortality.Jack London
The men made no movement to obey. Instead, they scanned one another’s faces and turned their looks upon the solitary white man.Jack London
It was a vast wilderness silence. There was nothing to break it. There were no night birds to sing, no wings to rustle in the tops of the spruce trees.Jack London
When one gets a glimpse of the soul of another, glimpses it in some naked and unguarded moment, one never forgets.Jack London
The light of day and the lapse of time enabled them to laugh at nightmares and horrors of the mind; a practical joke enabled them to laugh at a concrete fact.Jack London
Trust was a word he no longer knew. Suspicion shadowed all his intercourse with life.Jack London
He gazed about him like a child on its first journey, drinking in the newness of it all.Jack London
And remembering thus, he became keenly aware of the present, of the snow that chilled his body, of the darkness that had fallen, wrapping the world in its mantle.Jack London