To Build a Fire

Which quotation from the text best highlights the man’s ignorance to the potential dangers of nature?

Which quotation from the text best highlights the man’s ignorance to the potential dangers of nature?

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But all this—the distant trail, no sun in the sky, the great cold, and the strangeness of it all—had no effect on the man. It was not because he was long familiar with it. He was a newcomer in the land, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was not able to imagine.

The man's own hubris made him unable to comprehend what nature can do.