Hamlin Garland – 4 Quotes

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4 Quotes by Hamlin Garland

 

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

– Hamlin Garland


My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

– Hamlin Garland


Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.

– Hamlin Garland


There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.

– Hamlin Garland