"Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a mean…"

"To anyone who has spent a winter in the and known the depths to which the snow can reach, known the weeks when the st…"

"s must be able to slide instantly into the water, cannot waste precious moments struggling over land. No creature is …"

"... Here were young and with an occasional and a ground cover of , , and . I listened to the violin notes of a , the …"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"