Nature
The environmental setting includes aspen parkland and prairie grassland biomes, with wildlife such as White-tailed Deer, Red Foxen, Franklin's ground squirrels, porcupines, Ruffed Grouse, harriers, red-tailed hawks, Short-eared Owls, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, American Bitterns, common ducks, Mink, Muskrats, Beavers, Coyotes, Sprague's Pipits and savannah and vesper sparrows.
The Vermilion River fish population consists of Northern Pike, Fathead Minnow, Lake Chub, Brook Stickleback (Culaea inconstans), Longnose Dace and White Sucker.
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“When truth is nothing but the truth, it’s unnatural, it’s an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. That’s why art moves you—precisely because it’s unadulterated with all the irrelevancies of real life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)