Woodsong — Vocabulary
Gary Paulsen
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We live on the edge of wilderness and consequently the meat smell brings any number of visitors from the woods.p.36.8alternate pages1 more

I brushed her head away, fearing infection, but she persisted.†p.29.2alternate pages3 more

There is a happy song they sing when the moon is full on the snow and they are fed and there is a rain song, which is melancholy—they don't like rain very much—and there is a song they sing when you have been with them in the kennel and start to walk away, a come-back-and-don't-go-away sad song.†p.32.6alternate pages1 more

He was large and wolf-like, with a thick gray mane and a tail that curled over his back.†p.11.8alternate pages2 more

One unforgettable incident with the electric' fence illustrates his persistence.p.65.8alternate pages

They can indeed be mean, but they are wonderfully self-sufficient and fun to have around even if it takes about thirty of their small eggs to make a decent omelet.†p.43.5alternate pages

Primarily the difference between people and animals is that people use fire.†p.30.2alternate pages

As I watch he turns to look up at me—he is very distinct and I can see the wrinkles in the fabric of his coat, my own reflection in his glasses—he turns to look at me and begins to speak in a low voice about federal educational grants.†p.97.4alternate pages

It is genetic, so old a code or command that it has become part of what sled dogs are; the fiber of their very being.†p.14.8alternate pages1 more

The first time you see a bear in the kennel it is a novelty, but when the same ones are there day after day, you wind up naming some of them (old Notch-Ear, Billy-Jo, etc.) There gets to be a too relaxed attitude.†p.37.7alternate pages

Looking back on it I don't remember having one coherent thought when it was happening.†p.40.7alternate pages

I have not rested well and the hallucinations start about midnight and I have the same man in the trench coat on the sled for a time, talking to me about educational grants, until I tell him to shut up and leave and he becomes indignant.†p.106.6alternate pages

I couldn't tell the number, maybe five or six; they kept moving in agitation and it was hard to pin them down, but they were clearly reluctant to let her go, although they were also clearly afraid of me and being close to me.†p.35.1alternate pages

Moose are large, and essentially insane with an almost pathological hatred of the dogs, the sled, the musher, trees, trains, cars, and everything else as near as I can figure.†p.62.1alternate pages

Skunks abound, and foxes and coyotes and wolves and weasels—all predators.†p.36.8alternate pages1 more

Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding "the woods" is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.†p.1.8alternate pages

We hunkered in for the duration.†p.80.9alternate pages

The light came from within it, a cold-glowing green light with yellow edges that diffused the shape, making it change and grow as I watched.†p.53.1alternate pages

The wind abates, the sun comes out, the trail across is flat—frozen seawater—and the dogs are well rested.†p.128.1alternate pages

To alleviate the boredom we give the dogs large beef bones to chew and play with.†p.22.6alternate pages