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Post by Lady Trapper on Feb 24, 2007 21:11:31 GMT -5
Anyone who finds the Tobeatic to be of interest, has travelled this place ,or plans on traveling this wilderness should think about reading this historic book by Albert Bigelow Paine. I know I cant wait to get my hands on it. Here is a quote from the book.
"...It is the preciousness of isolation, the remoteness of men who dig up and tear down and destroy, who set whistles to tooting and bells to jingling - who shriek themselves hoarse in the market place and make the world ugly and discordant, and life a short and fevered span in which the soul has a chance to become no more than a feeble and crumbling thing. And if that kind of a soul pleases you, don't go to the woods. It will be only a place of mosquitos, and general wetness, and discomfort. You won't care for it. You will hate it. But if you are willing to get wet and stay wet - to get cold and stay cold - to be bruised, and scuffed, and bitten - to be hungry and thirsty, and to have your muscles strained and sore from unusual taxation: if you will welcome all these things, not once, but many times, for the sake of moments of pure triumph and that larger luxury which comes with the comfort of the camp and the conquest of the wilderness, then go!
The wilderness will welcome you, and teach you, and take you to its heart. And you will find your own soul there; and the discovery will be worth while!"
Albert Bigelow Paine, The Tent Dwellers, upon his return from the Tobeatic Wilderness in 1908.
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Post by Lady Trapper on Feb 24, 2007 21:41:42 GMT -5
Quote from the book On Mosquitoes: "...I wonder, by the way, what mosquitoes were made for....He seems to me a creature wholly devoid of virtues. He is a glutton, a poisoner, a spreader of disease, a dispenser of disturbing music. The last is the hardest to forgive."
(The famous Frederic Remington commented to Mr. Paine: "I know the answer. They were created to aid civilization - otherwise, no man not an idiot would live anywhere else than in the woods.")
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Post by Lady Trapper on Feb 24, 2007 21:42:34 GMT -5
Quote form the book On Mooseflies: (Those blasted things!!!) "...They were as excited as if we were long lost relatives who had suddenly turned up with a fortune. They swarmed about us and clung to us and tapped us in any convenient place. I did not blame them, of course. Moose diet, year in and year out, would make them welcome anything by way of a change...His family is large and he has many friends. He brings them all to greet you."
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Post by Lady Trapper on Feb 24, 2007 21:43:38 GMT -5
Qupte from the book on Campfire Smoke: "...the perversity of campfire smoke remains one of the unexplained mysteries. I have seen a fire properly built between two tents - with good draught and the whole wide sky to hold the smoke - suddenly send a column of suffocating vapor directly into the door of the tent, where there was no draught, no room, no demand at all for smoke. I have had it track me into the remotest corner of my sleeping-bag and have found it waiting for me when I came up for a breath of air. I have had it come clear around the tent to strangle me when I had taken refuge on the back side..."
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