Ernest Thompson Seton Quotes

• I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

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  Tags in Believe

• The Hudson’s Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

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• The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

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  Tags in River, Successful

• At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

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  Tags in Unique, Camp

• At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was – almost daily meeting with famous men.

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  Tags in Interesting, Travel

• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

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• Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

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• I have only one prejudice in horseflesh – I do not like a white one.

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• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water’s edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

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  Tags in Forest, Bank, Inspiring

• Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

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  Topics in Success

• We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Expedition

• There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

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• The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

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• On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

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Ernest Thompson Seton (14)

Birth:	14th August, 1860
Death:	23rd October, 1946
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Artist, Naturalist, Writer

About

Ernest Thompson Seton was born in South Shields, County Durham, England. He was a British-American writer, wildlife artist, naturalist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He was Chief Scout of the BSA from 1910–1915 and his work is in large part responsible for the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be American Indian elements into the traditions of the BSA. He was an early pioneer of the modern school of animal fiction writing, his most popular work being Wild Animals I Have Known, which contains the story of his killing of the wolf Lobo. For his work, Lives of Game Animals, Volume 4, he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1928.

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