The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrillHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1908 |
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... cause . If I were to name the three most precious re- sources of life , I should say books , friends , and nature ; and the greatest of these , at least the most constant and always at hand , is nature . Nature we have always with us ...
... cause . If I were to name the three most precious re- sources of life , I should say books , friends , and nature ; and the greatest of these , at least the most constant and always at hand , is nature . Nature we have always with us ...
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... causing it to make , in an ascent of about thirty feet , one complete revolution about a larger tree close to which it grew . On a smaller scale I have seen the same thing in a pine . Persons lost in the woods or on the plains , or ...
... causing it to make , in an ascent of about thirty feet , one complete revolution about a larger tree close to which it grew . On a smaller scale I have seen the same thing in a pine . Persons lost in the woods or on the plains , or ...
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... cause . It is like the caprice of fashion . In fact , the exaggerated plumes , fantastic colors , and monstrous beaks of many birds in both hemi- spheres have as little apparent utility , and seem to be quite as much the result of ...
... cause . It is like the caprice of fashion . In fact , the exaggerated plumes , fantastic colors , and monstrous beaks of many birds in both hemi- spheres have as little apparent utility , and seem to be quite as much the result of ...
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... cause with the effect is a common error . I doubt if the high color of some poisonous mushrooms is a warning color , or has any reference to outward conditions . The poison and the color are probably inseparable . The muskrat's color ...
... cause with the effect is a common error . I doubt if the high color of some poisonous mushrooms is a warning color , or has any reference to outward conditions . The poison and the color are probably inseparable . The muskrat's color ...
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... cause them to lose their neutral tints is not credible . The domestic pigeons and the barnyard fowls are almost as much exposed to their arch enemy , the hawk , as is the wild pigeon or the jungle fowl , if not more , since the wild ...
... cause them to lose their neutral tints is not credible . The domestic pigeons and the barnyard fowls are almost as much exposed to their arch enemy , the hawk , as is the wild pigeon or the jungle fowl , if not more , since the wild ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
animal apes beak beautiful bees birds birds of prey blue bluebird bobolinks brown cliff swallows comparative psychologists coon cosmic course crested flycatcher crow crow tribe danger Darwin doubt doubtless earth emotion enemies evil fact feeling feet female field forces gay plumes grass ground hand hawk hear hole human impulse insects instinct intelligence kind less lichens live look lower animals male man's mate matter mind moral natural history nature fakers nest neutral never nuthatch orchard oriole oriole plant play prey probably protectively colored reason red squirrel result robin rocks roots scarlet tanager seems seen sense skunk soil song song sparrow sparrow species spirit spring squirrel things thought thrush tints tion traits tree truth universe walk wings wood thrush woods young zeep
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 283 - But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger...
Seite 215 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Seite 224 - Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. \ All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Seite 224 - Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,...
Seite 252 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Seite 267 - I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things, They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
Seite 224 - I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
Seite 226 - His benediction (v. 20-23). 6. Pursuing this regular progression from the lower to the higher, from the simple to the complex, the text now gives us the work of the sixth " day," which supplies the land-population, air and water having been already supplied (pp.
Seite 265 - ... to be in direct and personal contact with the sources of your material life; to want no extras, no shields; to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to...
Seite 23 - You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush. The eye must have purpose and aim. No one ever yet found the walking fern who did not have the walking fern in his mind.