April 4, 1949

Sigurd is happy on his 50th birthday. He's in Toronto, where he has just succeeded in achieving a major goal for the Quetico-Superior program: the creation of an influential Canadian group to enlist public opinion for the large portion of the canoe country in Ontario. Fresh with success, he records his hopes of writing a book.

Birthday - 50 - 4/4/49

I have made the break and new horizons have opened up - a fuller life - more realization - more and bigger objectives.

I have found fame and friends and encouragement. When I write now it will be with a new and bigger audience - no short stories of adventure or love - it will be books of my feelings & probings on life and nature and mankind.

The Philosophy of a Wilderness Man -

Wilderness Man

The story of how primitiveness has always been important to me - statement of objectives. Woven through everything I write or see

The fascination of primitive things - soil - black dirt - rocks - geology - protoplasm - frog songs - flowers. The cabin - The theme is primitiveness - all the way thru. The search & finding of the value of primitiveness all the way thru -

Church - the Druid stories - cathedral - great groves -
Trout fishing
Hunting - 5 AM - not so much the hunting as what goes with it -

Not a return to the prim. but an awareness of what we are losing.

Living in a pack sack - simplicity - the movie -
The lunch spot -
Pussy Willows -
Kindling wood -