A winding footpath through green highlands towards a sunlit lake and distant hills.

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Hundreds and Thousands

Emily Carr

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker finds joy in meeting Canada's vastness untamed, and insists the thrill is not patriotic pride in a country's name. What moves them is something sublime they were born into, a rugged, enormous force that they belong to rather than merely observe.

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