Mink, Mary, and Me Quotes

“Jobs are scarce, and people are hard up. Lots of folks seem to be finding it easy to ask and accept help from the Government. It may have been just loneliness, but I somehow got to feeling that the atmosphere was not so healthy as it might be. It made me feel depressed. Suddenly it occurred to me that I wanted nothing on earth so much as to be back here with you helping to earn an honest living”
― Chick Ferguson, Mink, Mary, and Me: The Story of a Wilderness Trapline

“The ripples became little waves, and—fed by the stiffening wind—the little waves grew like the national debt.”
― Chick Ferguson, Mink, Mary, and Me: The Story of a Wilderness Trapline