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A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

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A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

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She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the s...more

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A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

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I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

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To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.