“Where will you find it.” All over the place, he said as he crouched down, and immediately picked one up off the ground. An incredible luckiness not even found amongst gamblers comes to him time and again. Things that happen to him repeatedly, for example after receiving a rare plant, shortly thereafter he finds the same plant in his favorite place. “I think back often,” he wrote in his journal. When he fell from the mountainside and sprained his leg and tried to stand up once more, right there in front of him was that leaf. When someone nearby recommended a “vegetarian diet,” he laughed that eating meals is a matter of little consequence; “People who hunt bison eat much better meals than myself.”