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A River Runs Through It A Return “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There nothing can befall me in life-no disgrace, no calamity, which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bear ground; my head bathed by blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanish.” To each man there are places to forget, places to ignore worries, troublesome thoughts, and lost ideals. For father and sons that place comes to be the Big Black Foot River. Rev. Maclean, Norman, and Paul find solace in the river; discover simpler standards for life, structure, and religion. The rhythmic, methodical current of the waters provide reason and faith, a return to gods green earth, a return how life was meant to be in the eyes of a transcendental. The author, the brothers, and the father; and the quest for purity. The beauty in the strength of mere words and the immense impact they have on the soul of man has been the inspiration to many of the greatest poets and writers. The ability to combine elegance with knowledge and thereupon affect the thoughts of others using only paper and pen has intrigued men for centuries. Henry David Thoreau proved to be the voice nature, life, god, paul, structure, norman, find, return, often, world, word, way, though, river, rev, man, maclean, ideals, father, been, yet, understand, through, thoreau, sons, reason, place, nothing, natural, learn, himself, god’s, freedom, faith, brothers, balance, worries, words, wonder, waters, ultimate, time, thoughts, structured, source, solace, society, societal, side, rocks