"The Pioneers" Quotes
"The Pioneers" follows the challenges and conflicts faced by settlers in the early American frontier.
classics | 496 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I never yet found the thing too difficult for me to do, that I had a fancy to undertake.
It's a hard matter to strip a pine of its bark, and to get the sap out of it; but the biggest of the trees may be lifted by a lever, and a child can drive an auger into the trunk.
I am, by nature, a peaceable man, but I know my rights, and am not to be trampled on by any of your great folks.
The fear of death is a low passion, and I do not think of it at all.
The trees of America grow too close, and cover too much ground, to stand in a European forest.
It's a strange thing to see a man hunted like a wolf, and a fellow-creature too!
There is no such thing as a wilderness in the world, now. Is it not, brother, as I tell you?
The happiest moments of our lives are sometimes the unhappiest, viewed in retrospect.
The world is not to be judged by what you see in the city, or in the settlements.
It is a melancholy sight, at all times, to see a forest on fire, but it is terrible in a dry autumn, when the woods are crackling like the roaring of the ocean, and the lightning is flashing from the clouds, like the blazing of a prairie.
