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1 " You are trying to capture the fog, and no one can do that. "
― Patrick D. Smith , A Land Remembered
2 " All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts. "
3 " Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow. "
4 " said. “That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it’s done that too. "
5 " Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him. "
6 " * * * The next morning, just before dawn, Tobias went out to the shed to awaken the Indians to eat coon stew Emma had prepared for them. There was no one there. FOUR The wheels creaked loudly as the wagon moved slowly along the old Indian trail that was just wide enough for it to pass. Both sides of the trail were bordered thickly with scrub pine and hickory "
7 " I’ll bet I’m the only eighty-five-year-old cracker left with all his own teeth. "
8 " You can go into Arcadia and get anybody you want killed for two shots of likker. "
9 " It is not just swamp!” Toby responded harshly. “It is God you are killing. He put the land here for all creatures to enjoy, and you are destroying it. When you destroy the land you destroy God. "
10 " they rode back she pressed against him, her face on his shoulder, her hands burning his chest like a branding iron. "
11 " We’re breaking a Seminole rule already. "
12 " This saddened Zech, and he pondered the why of it. "
13 " Sure seems that way,” Zech said. “That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it’s done that too. "
14 " Punta Rassa,” Emma repeated. “That’s a pretty name. Does it mean anything?” “It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can’t even figure that high. "
15 " Is there ’gators in the river?” “Mister, there ain’t no water in Florida without ’gators, ’less you got a tub of it in your house. And one’s liable to get in there too if you leave the door open. "