Excerpt from Wildlife in North Carolina, Vol. 30: January, 1966 I'm positive, too, that the bles sings of the out-oi - doors are just as effective for keeping all ages on an even keel mentally. In this age of stress and strain, American people each year con sume 11 million pounds of as pirin, 17 billion sleeping bills and so many tranquilizer pills that it's impossible to keep up with the changing figures, in an effort to ease their psychological prob lems. This hardly sounds as if we were living well-adjusted, care free lives, does it? Doctors spend countless hours consulting with patients with nothing more seriously wrong than self-induc ed aches, pains and anguish. The solitude of forest or stream, the relaxation of casting a fly over a trout, the honking of wild geese in the sky all serve as soothing sedatives to frayed nerves and weary minds. A noted Philadelphia physician, Dr. Ray mond West, recently made the statement that he firmly believes that the United States could dis pense with the services of doctors if people would fully utilize the blessings found close to nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.