"A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

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You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
More Louis L'Amour quotes
"One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
"A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
"She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the s...
"A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
"To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.