A pelican in the wilderness
"The desire for solitude is as old as human society, its pursuit as various as the individual temperament. From Lao Tsu and the Buddha, St Antony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin and Thomas Merton, certain gifted persons, each in his own way, have shown a vocation for …
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