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Wild at heart book dvd9/20/2023 Scott and Amundsen race for the South Pole, Peary and Cook vie for the North, and when I gave my boys some loose change and permission to ride their bikes down to the store to buy a soda, you’d have thought I’d given them a charter to go find the equator. Hannibal crosses his famous Alps, and there comes a day in a boy’s life when he first crosses the street and enters the company of the great explorers. We gave up at about eight feet, but it made a great fort. ![]() In 1260 Marco Polo headed off to find China, and in 1967, when I was seven, I tried to dig a hole straight through from our backyard with my friend Danny Wilson. It comes naturally, like our innate love of maps. My gender seems to need little encouragement. Their conclusion? “Never stop exploring.” I am not alive on a sidewalk.” Amen to that. ![]() “I am not alive in an office,” as one Northface ad had it. The core of a man’s heart is undomesticated and that is good. As John Muir said, when a man comes to the mountains, he comes home. We long to return it’s when most men come alive. And ever since then boys have never been at home indoors, and men have had an insatiable longing to explore. In the record of our beginnings, the second chapter of Genesis makes it clear: man was born from the outback, from the untamed part of creation. ![]() But Adam, if you’ll notice, was created from the earth itself, from the clay.
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