...and other wild animals. " Perhaps I most fully realised that this was primeval, untamed, and for ever untamable Nature^ or whatever else men call it, while...down this part of the mountain. We were passing over c Burnt Lands,' burnt by lightning, perchance, though they showed no recent marks of fire, hardly so...

...they had fled before us. A little farther, in a dense thicket, we seemed to be still on their trail. Pursuing this course, we soon reached the open land,...was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, while coming down this part of the mountain. We were passing over " Burnt Lands," though they showed...

...the ascent and returned to camp. The significance of the journey now struck home with sudden impact. Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed and forever untameable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down .... And yet we have not seen pure...

...in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, pp. 7071, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See also NATURE Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable, Nature. ... It is difflcult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man. We habitually presume his presence...

...Trimmed nearly by half, the paragraph reads as follows: Perhaps I most fully realized that this was the primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or...call it, while coming down this part of the mountain. ... It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man. We habitually presume his presence...

...thread of our clothes was as dry as usual, owing perhaps to a peculiar quality in the atmosphere — "Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untameable Nature . . . while coming down this part of the mountain — It is difficult to conceive...