un-tempted

Updated: August 25, 2026

I must seek it among wild and primeval solitudes, where I can be alone with nature in her unadorned simplicity, away from the barbarisms, so to speak, of civilization, where I can act and talk and think as a natural, and not an artificial man, where I can be off my guard, and free from the weight of that armor which the conventionalities of life, the captions espionage of the world compels us to wear, un-tempted by the thousand enticements which society everywhere presents to lure us into unrest."

S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond - Wild Northern Scenes: Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod