The main locations that will be filmed are Sam’s Island and home on Four Mile Lake, Vanishing Lake, Friendship Tail, Four Mile Creek, a few other locations around Three Lakes and Eagle River, WI; the Boundary Waters, MN and Quetico Provincial Park in Canada (exact lakes to be determined).
Additional locations we would like to film in to round out the documentary: Glacier NP, Yosemite NP, Grand Canyon NP, and Banff NP in Alberta Canada.
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"One of the inexplicable things in nature, at least to our present limited understanding, is the strange faculty of instinct found in both animals and men. In men instinct has been smothered and lost in self-consciousness and, with questionable benefit at times, compromised with reason."One of the inexplicable
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"I am often led to speculate on the evidence of Divine design there is even in the small events of our lives." Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 157I am often led
"Fear is the screen that hides from our view the friendship native to the wild heart. Wildness is only a form of fear, for when kindness and patience have penetrated the veil, we see unmistakable evidence of the love in all forms of life."Fear is the screen
"A person must stand on holy ground to realize… that in himself are talents and the opportunities through which he must work out his salvation. Not in the world, but in his own character in his work. Success is not measured by comparing himself with his neighbor, but rather in the degree he cultivates and uses his natural ability." A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 231A person must stand
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