backwoods-boy

Updated: June 15, 2025

We make too little always of the physical; certainly we make too little of it here if we lose out of sight the strength and muscular activity, the power of doing and enduring, which the backwoods-boy inherited from generations of hard-living ancestors, and appropriated for his own by a long discipline of bodily toil.

Phillips Brooks - Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks