"It is something-it can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below."
"I didn’t know that it rose on the west side of Targhee Pass...
The divide itself meant nothing to me. My imagination was not stretched by the wonder of the parted waters...
All I knew was that it was pure delight..."
" The very richness of that past as I discover it now makes me irritable
to have been cheated of it then.
All of it was legitimately mine, I walked that earth, but none of it was
known to me.
I wish we had known it....
I knew the swallows and muskrats, and was at ease with them…. But
Time, which man invented, I did not know. I was an unpeopled and
unhistoried wilderness, I possessed hardly any of the associations
with which human tradition defines and enriches itself."
"Wanted
A True Civilization
Not A Ruthless Occupation
Disguised As Romantic Myth"