ld-time saying of Jack London's friends:"Jack's Home is the real home."
"Perhaps there is no place of its kind in the west that has attracted so many and such a variety of visitors as the Home That Jack Built with the latch string always hanging out-and beckoning."
"It is dreadfully hard for me to get my friends to understand just what the ranch means to me... . From a utilitarian standpoint I hope to do two things with the ranch: (1) To leave the land better for my having been; (2) and to enable thirty or forty families to live happily on ground that was so impoverished that an average of three farmers went bankrupt on each of the five ranches I have run together."