The Book says God made the world in six days, and I think He must have spent one whole day, and His best day, too, on the country in here.

Think of the St Lawrence, and all the big lakes and middle-sized lakes and little lakes, and the Hudson and the other splendid rivers, and the fine mountains east of the Hudson and west of it, and all the grand valleys, and the great country of the Hodenosaunee, and the gorgeous green forest running hundreds and hundreds of miles, every way! I tell you, Robert--and it's no sacrilege either--after He did such a splendid and well-nigh perfect job He could stop for the night and call it a good and full day's work.

I reckon that nowhere else on the earth's surface are so many fine and wonderful things crowded into one region." He took a deep breath and gazed with responsive eyes at the dim blue crests of the mountains.
"It's all that you call it," said Robert, whose soul was filled with the same love and admiration, "and I'm glad I was born within its limits.
I've noticed, Dave, that the people of old lands think they alone have love of country.

New people may love a new land just as much, and I love all this country about us, the lakes, and the rivers, and the mountains and the valleys and the forests." He flung out his arms in a wide, embracing gesture, and he, too, took deep long breaths of the crisp air that came over the clean forest.
Tayoga smiled, and the smile was fathomless.
"I, Tayoga, of the clan of the Bear, of the nation Onondaga, of the great League of the Hodenosaunee, can rejoice more than either of you, my white friends," he said, "because I and my fathers for ages before me were born into this wonderful country of which you speak so well, but not too well, and much of it belongs to the Hodenosaunee.

The English and the French are but of yesterday.