He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees;... The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum,"-- Last of its timber,--they couldn't sell 'em,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dog-wood breaks white The pear-tree has caught... The apple is a red blaze The peach has already withered its own leaves The wild plum-tree is alight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the afternoon I climbed up a ladder--he as a cheap cabin in the... country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed... and the wood were white and my night mind saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is a man white as marble Sits in a wood, in the greenest part,... Brooding sounds of the images of death, So there is a man in black space Sits in nothing that we know, Brooding sounds of river noises....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We saw many straggling white pines, commonly unsound trees, which had therefore been skipped by the choppers; these were the large...st trees we saw; and we occasionally passed a small wood in which this was the prevailing tree; but I did not notice nearly so many of these trees as I can see in a single walk in Concord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Its farmers tell me that thousands of acres are flooded now, since the dams have been erected, where they remember to have seen th...e white honeysuckle or clover growing once, and they could go dry with shoes only in summer. Now there is nothing but blue-joint and sedge and cut-grass there, standing in water all the year round. For a long time, they made the most of the driest season to get their hay,... but now it is not worth the getting when they can come at it, and they look sadly round to their wood-lots and upland as a last resource.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This afternoon's experience suggested to me how base or coarse are the motives which commonly carry men into the wilderness. The e...xplorers and lumberers generally are all hirelings, paid so much a day for their labor, and as such they have no more love for wild nature than wood-sawyers have for forests. Other white men and Indians who come here are for the most part hunters, whose object is to slay as many moose and other wild animals as possible. But, pray, could not one spend some weeks or years in the solitude of this vast wilderness with other employments than these,--employments perfectly sweet and innocent and ennobling?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Verily, the Indian has but a feeble hold on his bow now; but the curiosity of the white man is insatiable, and from the first he h...as been eager to witness this forest accomplishment. That elastic piece of wood with its feathered dart, so sure to be unstrung by contact with civilization, will serve for the type, the coat-of-arms of the savage. Alas for the Hunter Race! the white man has driven off their game, and substituted a cent in its place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are light and shapely vessels, calculated for rapid and rocky streams, and to be carried over long portages on men's shoulder...s, from twenty to thirty feet long, and only four or four and a half wide, sharp at both ends like a canoe, though broadest forward on the bottom, and reaching seven or eight feet over the water, in order that they may slip over rocks as gently as possible. They are made very slight, only two boards to a side, commonly secured to a few light maple or other hard-wood knees, but inward are of the clearest and widest white pine stuff, of which there is a great waste on account of their form, for the bottom is left perfectly flat, not only from side to side, but from end to end. Sometimes they become "hogging" even, after long use, and the boatmen then turn them over and straighten them by a weight at each end. They told us that one wore out in two years, or often in a single trip, and sold for from fourteen to sixteen dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »