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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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its forms merely,—but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)