Part Three 

 KEEPING THINGS NATURAL 



The day is almost upon us when canoe travel will consist 

 in paddling up the noisy wake of a motor launch and por- 

 taging through the back yard of a summer cottage. When 

 that day comes canoe travel will be dead, and dead too 

 will be a part of our Americanism. . . . The day is 

 almost upon us when a pack train must wind its way up 

 a gravelled highway and turn out its bell mare in the 

 pasture of a summer hotel. When that day comes, the 

 pack train will be dead, the diamond hitch will be merely 

 a rope and Kit Carson and Jim Bridger will be names in 

 a history lesson. 

 Aldo Leopold, in American Forests and Forest Life. October 1925. 



