Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. P...ancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand--my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm's length.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students 'to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to re...nder.' Dean Greenough organized an 'emergency committee,' and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, 'To hell with football if men are needed.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not bear much looking into. You undoubtedly have heard of the Siberian goat herder... who tried to discover the true nature of the sun. He stared up at the heavenly body until it made him blind. There are many things of this sort, including love and death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks... My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ...ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far over the ice, between the hemlock woods and snow-clad hills, stands the pickerel-fisher.... He does not make the scenery less ...wild, more than the jays and the muskrats, but stands there as a part of it, as the natives are represented in the voyages of early navigators, at Nootka Sound, and on the Northwest coast, with their furs about them, before they were tempted to loquacity by a scrap of iron. He belongs to the natural family of man, and is planted deeper in nature and has more root than the inhabitants of towns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Indian said that he had got his money by hunting, mostly high up the West Branch of the Penobscot, and toward the head of the ...St. John; he had hunted there from a boy, and knew all about that region. His game had been beaver, otter, black cat (or fisher), sable, moose, etc. Loup-cervier (or Canada lynx) were plenty yet in burnt grounds. For food in the woods, he uses partridges, ducks, dried moose-meat, hedgehog, etc. Loons, too, were good, only "bile 'em good." He told us at some length how he had suffered from starvation when a mere lad, being overtaken by winter when hunting with two grown Indians in the northern part of Maine, and obliged to leave their canoe on account of ice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is oftenest the young man's introduction to the forest, and the most original part of himself. He goes thither at first as a ...hunter and fisher, until at last, if he has the seeds of a better life in him, he distinguishes his proper objects, as a poet or naturalist it may be, and leaves the gun and fish-pole behind. The mass of men are still and always young in this respect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self- respect ... always when I have done, ...I feel that it would have been better if I had not fished. I think that I do not mistake. It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks of morning. There is unquestionably this instinct in me which belongs to the lower orders of creation; yet with every year I am less a fisherman, though without more humanity or even wisdom; at present I am no fisherman at all. But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »