Financial necessity can force a retreat into the wilderness.

Evidence

I must go up to Estes Park, where I can live without ready money, and remain there till things change for the better. It does not seem a very hard fate! Long’s Peak rises in purple gloom, and I long for the cool air and unfettered life of the solitary blue hollow at its base. Estes Park, November 20. Would that three notes of admiration were all I need give to my grand, solitary, uplifted, sublime, remote, beast-haunted lair, which seems more indescribable than ever; but you will wish to know how I have sped, and I wish you to know my present singular circumstances. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 217

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Reframes a money-driven retreat as an enviable fate, a small piece of wisdom about turning constraint into freedom.
• FICTION: A narrator driven by poverty into a remote ‘beast-haunted lair’ is a ready-made opening for a wilderness narrative.