My recollection of a hundre... by Hamlin Garland, an American Novelist

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“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.”

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Hamlin Garland

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Name: Hamlin Garland

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Sep 14, 1860

Date of Death: Mar 4, 1940

Profession: Novelist

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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