When Paul Bunyan's loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space befor...e discovering they had passed the last rafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere..., from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me.... But that was in the woods, to hold my hand From striking at another alder's roots,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There stood the purple spires with no breath of air Nor headlong bee... To disturb their perfect poise the livelong day 'Neath the alder tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Oregon [matter] and the annexation of Texas are now all- important to the security and future peace and prosperity of our unio...n, and I hope there are a sufficient number of pure American democrats to carry into effect the annexation of Texas and [extension of] our laws over Oregon. No temporizing policy or all is lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country wheth...er he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls' curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon.... That short-haired joy and roughness-- America--your stupidity. I could almost love you again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm gonna go back to my hometown in Oregon and I'm gonna build a house for my m...other and myself. And join the country club and take up golf. And I'll meet the proper man with the proper position. And I'll make a proper wife who can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be happy, because when you're proper, you're safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »