J.S.’s Reviews > Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country > Status Update

We need the winding back roads where the driver is warned by the road itself to slow down, take it easy. We need them as a relief from the haste and tensions of the highways where everyone seems intent on getting somewhere so he can turn around and hurry back. We need country roads where the leisurely travelers can stop and look... Country roads are for enjoying, and the best of that enjoyment comes to him who walks.

I don't know why a jay can make the most harmless action look like a felony, but he can.

Those ugly, destructive Norway rats, common all over the world, deserve no quarter.

Linnaeus: 'If you have remarked errors in me, your superior wisdom must pardon them. Who errs not in perambulating the realm of nature? Who can observe everything with accuracy? Correct me as a friend, and I as a friend will requite with kindness.'