It must be confessed that the Pilgrims possessed but few of the qualities of the modern pioneer. They were not the ancestors of th...e American backwoodsmen. They did not go at once into the woods with their axes. They were a family and church, and were more anxious to keep together, though it were on the sand, than to colonize a New World.... It is true they were busy at first about their building, and were hindered in that by much foul weather; but a party of emigrants to California or Oregon, with no less work on their hands,--and more hostile Indians,--would do as much exploring the first afternoon, and the Sieur de Champlain would have sought an interview with the savages, and examined the country as far as the Connecticut, and made a map of it, before Billington had climbed his tree.... Nevertheless, the Pilgrims were pioneers, and the ancestors of pioneers, in a far grander enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's this crazy weather we've been having: Falling forward one minute, lying down the next... Among the loose grasses and soft, white, nameless flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together,... Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The river, right, tumbled into a cove; But the map dashed the road along the stream... And we dotted man's fishiest enthymeme With jellied feet upon understanding love Of what eyes see not, that nourishes the will: We were fishers, weren't we?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Management Area of Cherokee National Forest, interested in fish,... Has mapped Tellico and Bald Rivers And North River, with the tributaries Brookshire Branch and Sugar Cove Creed: A fishy map for facile fishery....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »