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" We who live so far apart that we rarely see more of one another than the blue smoke of each other's chimneys are never at ease without the feel of the forest on every side— room to breathe, to expand, to develop, as well as to hunt and to wander at... "
A History of Watauga County, North Carolina: With Sketches of Prominent Families - Page 6
by John Preston Arthur - 2002 - 364 pages
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Outing and the Wheelman, Volume 62

1913 - 824 pages
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Our Southern Highlanders

Horace Kephart - 1913 - 472 pages
...on every side — room to breathe, to ^expand, to develop, as well as to hunt and to wander at will. The nature of the mountaineer demands that he have...of his personality, wing-room for his eagle heart." Such feeling, such longing, most of us have experienced in passing moods ; but in the highlander it...
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The Spirit of the Mountains

Emma Bell Miles, David E. Whisnant, Roger D. Abrahams - 1985 - 260 pages
...on every side — room to breathe, to expand, to develop, as well as to hunt and to wander at will. The nature of the mountaineer demands that he have...of his personality, wingroom for his eagle heart. Under the conditions of such a life it is inevitable that our social grouping falls naturally into...
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Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian ...

Ronald D. Eller - 1982 - 304 pages
...on every side — room to breathe , to expand, to develop, as well as to hunt and to wander at will. The nature of the mountaineer demands that he have...growth of his personality, wingroom for his eagle heart."44 Sequestered as they were, mountain residents nevertheless took considerable pride in the...
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Grundy County

James Lawrence Nicholson, Robert Ewing Corlew - 1982 - 154 pages
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Appalachia Inside Out Volume 1: Conflict and Change: Knoxville, Tennessee

Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 380 pages
...inevitable, and finally loved for its own sake (380). Emma Bell Miles, in The Spirit of the Mountains. adds, "The nature of the mountaineer demands that he have...of his personality, wing-room for his eagle heart" (73). This longing for space is perceived by Kephart and Miles as a permanent state of mind, a way...
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Outing and the Wheelman, Volume 62

1913 - 790 pages
...on every side — room to breathe, to expand, to develop, as well as to hunt and to wander at will. The nature of the mountaineer demands that he have...of his personality, wing-room for his eagle heart." Such feeling, such longing, most of us have experienced in passing moods; but in the highlander it...
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