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Yet I won't let you fancy me of such an irrational state of simplicity as not to be fully aware that you, with your 'nature of the fields and forests, look down disdainfully and with an inward heat of glorying, upon me who have all my pastime in books dead and seethed. Perhaps, if it were a little warmer, I might even grant that you are right in your pride.
The only proper Americans would be the Indians." She frowned and looked puzzled. "A little way back we came from England and France and Holland and Spain and Italy. We are so diverse that it is a wonder we can be harmonized. Only there seems something in this grand air, these mighty forests, these immense lakes and rivers, that nurtures liberty and independence and breadth of thought and action.
They simply sat down together on a rock, and blubbered loud and long; we sat down opposite them on another rock and laughed, and laughed tableau! On Friday I went for a delightful walk through the pine and deodar forests, the ostensible objective being, of course, a bear.
The fields were green; the axe no longer sounded in the forests: a good house stood in the centre of cultivation; a road of two miles in length cut through the estate, and the whole place looked like an adopted "home." All the trials and disappointments of the beginning were passed away, and the real was a picture which I had ideally contemplated years before. The task was finished.
Here in abundance are every mineral and metal, rich and varied soils, all fruits and native products, fuels and forests, for some of which we may even thank earthquakes and kindred volcanic forces. Manufactures compel commerce, and the commerce of the Pacific will rule the world. The essentials of commerce are here. Intelligence and enterprise are here and open to enlargement.
But the grand circumference of mountains and forests are coming from far and near, densing into one close assemblage; for the sun, their god and father, with love ineffable, is glowing a sunset farewell. Not one of all the assembled rocks or trees seemed remote. How impressively their faces shone with responsive love! I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
By a study of the evidences presented by coral-reefs, raised beaches, submerged forests, and other phenomena of a similar kind, it can be shown that certain wide areas of the land and of the ocean-floor are at the present time in a state of subsidence, while other equally large areas are being upheaved.
They received us into the bosoms of their peaceful forests, and gave us their lands and their beauteous daughters in marriage, and we became rich.
"Oh no; it is one of the richest countries in the world, producing all kinds of grain, with noble rivers intersecting it, and in some parts covered with stately forests. In the winter, which is rather long, there is a good deal of ice and snow, it is true, but in the summer the weather is warmer than here."
Suddenly he reached out and his great hands came gently down upon her softly rounded shoulders. It was a wonderful caress. They held her firmly while he gazed into her eyes. "Say, Nancy," he cried, in a voice that was deep with emotion. "You mean that? Those words? You've quit the Skandinavia? What what are you going to do?" "I I'm going to the forests with Father Adam.
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