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In the Catskills
John Burroughs
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We toiled up the long steep hill, where only an occasional mullein-stalk or other tall weed stood above the snow. Near the top the hill was girded with a bank of snow that blotted out the stone wall and every vestige of the earth beneath. These hills wear this belt till May, and sometimes the plow pauses beside them. From the top of the ridge an immense landscape in immaculate white stretches before us. Miles upon miles of farms, smoothed and padded by the stainless element, hang upon the sides of the mountains, or repose across the long sloping hills. The fences or stone walls show like half-obliterated black lines. I turn my back to the sun, or shade my eyes with my hand. Every object or movement in the landscape is sharply revealed; one could see a fox half a league. The farmer foddering his cattle, or . . . Read More
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These are eight essays, written in the 1860s, about the Catskills - part of my personal joy was recognizing so many streams and mountains I have hiked over, swam and fished in, and camped along.
This is definitely a book of the 1860s - nature is loved and appreciated, but not idealized. Animals get s
Imagine an America, a New York State, populated mostly with farms and wilderness. And imagine an observer of this territory, a man with a sharp eye, a deep love of wildlife and adventures in the woods, and an ability to write crisp, expressive, and literate proses. Now put this writer in that settin