"The white spruce forest along the banks is……" — Ernest Thompson Seton
"The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks."
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19 Quotes by Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all…
- The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
- Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
- For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He…
- How much service have I rendered to my people?
- All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered…
- I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
- Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
- I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.
- Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders,…
- The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe…
- We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we…
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