It appears that I saw about a dozen plants which had accompanied man as far into the woods as Chesuncook, and had naturalized them...selves there, in 1853. Plants begin thus early to spring by the side of a logging-path,--a mere vista through the woods, which can only be used in the winter, on account of the stumps and fallen trees,--which are at length are the roadside plants in old settlements. The pioneers of such are planted in part by the first cattle, which cannot be summered in the woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceived ...the fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coƶperated with art here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a big picture of K. Marx with an axe, "Where I cut off one it will never grow again."... O Karl would it were true I'd put my saw to work for you & the wicked social tree would fall right down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bulldozed by Luther and Weyerhaeuser Crosscut and chainsaw... squareheads and finns high-lead and cat-skidding Trees down Creeks choked, trout killed, roads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it's hard to farm Between the stumps:... The cows get thin, the milk tastes funny, The kids grow up and go to college They don't come back the little fir-trees doLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Ming fall)... lived in a tree: "The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory is lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »