Arundel
“Yet they seemed hideous to me when we fought our way across them through the gales and snow of late October, so I think there is more to beauty than swelling hills or tumbled rocks or limpid waters; and I wouldn’t give one acre of my ragged sand dunes in Arundel for all the mountain ponds you can show me in a week.
Nor, for good reasons, did I see beauty in any of that tom and crumpled region that lay between us and Canada, one of the reasons being that the snow stung our eyes so that for a... part of the time we could see nothing but the trees about us, and another being that we made our way through such a smother of brush and fallen logs that we had to screen our eyes to keep them from being whipped out, and a third being that I long ago learned from Natanis that speed is gained and strength saved, in arduous marching or climbing, if the eye is fastened on the ground that lies before the feet, once the trail be known.
Therefore I saw less of that country than I might have seen had I gone into it to dawdle over the killing of moose or bear, with stout shoes on my feet, and a full belly thrice a day, and fires to drive the ache from muscles and joints.MoreLess
Nor, for good reasons, did I see beauty in any of that tom and crumpled region that lay between us and Canada, one of the reasons being that the snow stung our eyes so that for a... part of the time we could see nothing but the trees about us, and another being that we made our way through such a smother of brush and fallen logs that we had to screen our eyes to keep them from being whipped out, and a third being that I long ago learned from Natanis that speed is gained and strength saved, in arduous marching or climbing, if the eye is fastened on the ground that lies before the feet, once the trail be known.
Therefore I saw less of that country than I might have seen had I gone into it to dawdle over the killing of moose or bear, with stout shoes on my feet, and a full belly thrice a day, and fires to drive the ache from muscles and joints.MoreLess
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