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Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.
Richard Proenneke
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
May 4, 1916
Died:
April 20, 2003
(aged 86)
Bio:
Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke was an amateur naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
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