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"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects."

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."

"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."

"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."

"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."
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