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“I thank you for your Expt on the Hedge Hog; but why do you ask me such a question, by way of solving it. I think your solution is just; but why think, why not try the experiment?" -Letter to Edward Jenner (2 Aug 1775)”

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“The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a vist to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the cored. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbiggind, oppressive, primeval country that was "grim and wild . . .savage and dreary," fit only for "men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we." The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical.”

Nature Wilderness Hiking Appalachia Thoreau

Book:A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“The pull of our roots can be such a strong force, no matter how far or wide we may roam.”

Recipes Appalachia

Book:Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest: Recipes and Stories Inspired by My Appalachian Home

Source: Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest: Recipes and Stories Inspired by My Appalachian Home

“so all you can hear is just general leaves?”

Appalachia American South Mountain Life

Book:Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“She asked me what I wanted to be whenever I grew up. I had to think about that. We went past some barns and tobacco fields with their big yellow-green leaves waving in the sad evening light. She looked over at me and said, Hey, why so glum, chum? I told her nobody had ever asked me that question before, about growing up and what I wanted to be, so I didn't know. Mainly, still alive.”

Foster Care Appalachia

Book:Demon Copperhead

Source: Demon Copperhead

“Homelessness is not a race thing. It's not a gender thing. It's not a religious thing. It's not a gay or straight thing. It's not a political thing. It's not a thing, it's people.”

Abuse Rape Narcissist Appalachia Hillbilly Inbred

Book:God Saw You Kill My Two Little Friends!

Source: God Saw You Kill My Two Little Friends!

“Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor.”

Appalachia Elegy Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“If you don't tell your story, somebody else will.”

Appalachia Affrilachia Frank X Walker

Author:Frank X. Walker

“On our trip to Appalachia, I realized that my destiny would always be connected to mountains.”

Wisdom Mountain Travel Mountains Appalachia Trip

Book:Geotravel: Tips and Stories

Source: Geotravel: Tips and Stories

“I tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want to vomit. I did go to the library...”

South Appalachia Hillbilly Elegy

Book:Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.”

Appalachia Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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