Excerpt from Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills and Streams, Its Animals, Birds, and Fishes, Its Gardens, Farms, and ClimateThroughout the eastern country there are thou sands of men who have won fortune enough and are now anxious only for its enjoyment by an easy ride down the western slope of life. Why toil forever up the tumbling wave to sink next moment in the ocean's hollow? For what reward upon our little pinhead in Space do we worry and wear ourselves away? If men can be judged by their exclamations, when both unpremeditated and disinterested, in what do they take more genuine and enduring pleasure than in a fine prospect and a fine day? And why should such pleasures be reserved for special days and seasons? Why not enjoy them continuously? We can indeed go to Florida in winter, but must ¿y from it with the opening of spring. We would not always be birds of passage. Along the shores of the Mediterranean or in Mexico we might possi bly find what we want, but there we are exiles from our people and country. Is there no spot in our own land where both winter and summer shall bring pleasure and comfort?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.