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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung…

— Hamlin Garland

“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs…

— E.E. Knight

“The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had…

— Jack London

“It was rainy, trees leafing out, spring deepening into summer; and the forlorn cry of horns on the street, the dank smell of the…

— Donna Tartt

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants,…

— Diogenes

“The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change from the usual bland…

— Poppy Z. Brite

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the…

— Sheri L. Dew

“In early autumn the farm recruiters arrived to sign up new workers, and the War Relocation Authority allowed many of the young men and…

— Julie Otsuka

“The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores,…

— John Fante

“We saw fouled beaches, dead wildlife, destroyed wetlands, unemployed fishermen, bankrupt tourism businesses, depressed local economies, ruined communities.”

— Jaden Skye

“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look at it,…

— Paulette Jiles