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"“In these forests death needs no apology, but has a beauty of its own in advancing through history as the nourishing helpmate of birth in the folds of earth.”" 7 hours, 12 min ago

 
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Jamie is on page 370 of 394 of Strangers in High Places: “In these forests death needs no apology, but has a beauty of its own in advancing through history as the nourishing helpmate of birth in the folds of earth.”
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains
Jamie is on page 325 of 394 of Strangers in High Places: Here we go, the chapters on the honor code of the moonshiners. It’s not a book about the Smokies without it.
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains
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Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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Camping And Woodcraft by Horace Kephart
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"“I smell the look on your face, cowboy.” Love it so much!"
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The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
“When you lifted the lid a bit the natural world, including ourselves, offered as much darkness in human terms as light. To look at it with any clarity you certainly had to attempt to look at it through the perceptions of a million-plus other species...more
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Daniel Villines
Daniel Villines is on page 4 of The Blue Hotel: "But," said the cowboy, deeply scandalized, "this ain't Wyoming, ner none of them places. This is Nebrasker."
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Strangers in High Places by Michael Frome
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A Tidewater Morning by William Styron
A Tidewater Morning
by William Styron
read in May, 2013
One man’s “rich and remarkable” (as per the cover blurb) is unfortunately this lady’s “bland and insufferable.” It was short, though, so I persevered when it took all of two hours. Thinking the whole way, who talks like this, who thinks like this, wh...more
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

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