Paolo Cognetti Quotes

“I was stuck with so many me's that I sometimes went for a walk through the woods in the evening to be alone for a while.”

“It is a special understanding that is created in a double ascent: in the long run, it is as if you shared with your companion not only a rope and a trace in the snow, but also a breath, thoughts, a heartbeat.”

“Ten months out of the year, I felt trapped in clean clothes and a rule-based system of authority; in the mountains I shook it all off and gave my true nature space.”

“When I look at it, I think of the four centuries old larches: one century in the forest and the other three to prop up a house, and that seems to me the noblest service a tree can render to a human being.”