next-to-nature

Updated: July 18, 2026

The argument for coöperation had been that life on the coast was not worth living under the credit system. A short feast and a long famine was the local epigram. If our profits could be maintained on the coast, and spent on the coast, then the next-to-nature life had enough to offer in character as well as in maintenance to attract a permanent population, especially with the furring in winter.

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell - A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell