From The Deerslayer: "Nay, Judith, I can't agree too lightly in the truth of all this. If forts are good to keep off inimies[Judith was speaking of wanting to be nearer the fort, town,etc.],they sometimes hold inimies of their own. I don't think 'twould be for your good, or the good of Hetty[Judith's sister], to live near one; and if I must say what I think, I'm afeared you are a little too near as it is [Judith is a runway model- in another novel]."  Deerslayer went on, in his own steady, earnest manner, for the darkness concealed the tints that colored the cheeks of the girl almost to the brightness of crimson, while her own great efforts suppressed the sounds of the breathing that nearly choked her[she wanted him]." As for farms, they have their uses, and there's them that like to pass their lives on 'em; but what comfort can a man look for in a clearin', that he can't find in double quantities in the forest? If air, and room, and light, are a little craved, the windrows and the streams will furnish 'em, or hear are the lakes for such as have bigger longings in that way; but where are you to find your shades, and laughing springs. and leaping brooks and vinerable trees, a thousand years old, in a clearin'? You don't find them, but you find their disabled trunks, marking the 'arth like headstones in a graveyard. It seems to me that the people who live in such places must be always thinkn' of their own inds, and of universal decay; and that, too, not of the decay that is brought about by time and natur', but the decay that follows waste and violence. Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else good men wouldn't uphold 'em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em the temples of the Lord; but, Judith, the whole 'arth is a temple of the Lord to such as have their right mind. Neither forts nor churches make people happier of themselves. Moreover, all is contradiction in the settlements, while all is concord in the woods. Forts and churches almost always go together, and yet they're downright contradictions; churches being for peace, and forts for war. No, no- give me the strong places of wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too which are arbors raised by the hand of natur'.

The Deerslayer(p.237-8) by James Fenimore Cooper-1841