August Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting.

— Sue Hubbell

“As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it…

— Herman Melville

“Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of…

— Bill Bryson

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

— William Henry Ashley

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

— Joseph Monninger

“Machigonne” was the Abenaki Indian name for Portland. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain, landed the first settlement in Casco Bay on the 6,000…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

— David Mitchell

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish…

— Henry David Thoreau

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled…

— John James Audubon

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be…

— Henry David Thoreau

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The old Waldo-Hancock Bridge crossed the Penobscot River from Verona Island in Hancock County to Waldo County in Maine. Built in 1931, it has…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One