“We don't have plays and music and contact with sophisticated minds, and a round of social engagements. All we have are sun and wind and rain, and space in which to move and breathe. All we have are the forests, and the calm expanses of the lakes, and time to call our own. All we have are the hunting and fishing and the swimming, and each other.”
—Louise Dickinson Rich (1903-1991), in We Took to the Woods (1942) and many other books, mostly about Maine. We Took to the Woods (1942) is set in the Rangeley Lake area of northwest Maine. It has elements of Thoreau. She played down the darker stuff.