"To anyone who has spent a winter in the and known the depths to which the snow can reach, known the weeks when the stays below , the first hint of spring is a major event. You must live in the north to understand it. You cannot just come up for it as you might to Florida for the sunshine and the surf. To appreciate it, you must wait for it for a long time, hope and dream about it, and go through considerable enduring."
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Sigurd F. Olson
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader.
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