To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where the heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the week end in town astride a radiator. The taste for country displays the same diversity in aesthetic competence among individuals as the taste for opera, or oils. Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains.
Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters.
It is strange that of all the multitudes of creatures who must rise in the morning at some time, only these few should have discovered the most pleasant and least useful time for doing it. One hundred and twenty acres, according to the County Clerk, is the extent of my worldly domain. I am the sole owner of all the acres I can walk over. It is not only the boundaries that disappear, but also the thought of being bounded. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.