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...scenarists, the Sherman brothers, are the songwriting team whose dwarf-sized talents were nurtured in the Disney forest (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks). They have cleared away plenty of room for lyrical reflections on such matters as existence ("Man's gotta be what he's born to be") and mortality ("Sooner or later, just like a patater, man's planted in his grave"). They even empty Tom's whitewash pot of its humor and fill it with one of their characteristically neologistic songs, Gratification-which is not exactly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
...state, thinks that people have rights to untrammeled nature in the same way they have to religious freedom. Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness. He is a "nonconsumptive" user of the forest, a man with exceptional powers of observation, reflection and appreciation. He neither hunts nor fishes but takes long solitary hikes and prefers conversing with old farmers, trappers and woodsmen "rather than those my own age, saddled with mortgages and emphatic politics." In 1969, the method resulted in the beautiful and melancholy pastoral...
...Gebel-Williams' caged and sensuous art and the author's own ritual purifications in the woods lies the real wild-that state of constant tension between freedom and control. It is the bewilderness, an inexhaustible human resource that Hoagland exploits while scarcely leaving a track on the forest floor. · R.Z. Sheppard
...thought about the forest near her family's place in South Carolina and could then feel the low-key steady rushing of the wood creatures heading home. She laughed a small animal laugh; feeling the furry rodent-like animals and the dark birds, settling in for the night; fleeing to their burrows and nests. She was absorbed in the late afternoon rustling of the world's weak creatures hiding away, from night and the predators it cloaked...
...meal a day. But not a single person has died of starvation." Then, reminding his audience to vote for the symbol of the boat in the country's first national election, he asked them "to put up both your hands if you have confidence in me." A forest of hands shot up, and lusty shouts of "Jot Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) rang...