The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrillHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1908 |
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... Evil Eye ; or that portrayed his slayer as a self - sacrificing hero ; or that represented the little Monitor that eventful day on Hampton Roads as diving under the Merrimac and tossing it ashore on its beak ? The nature fakers take ...
... Evil Eye ; or that portrayed his slayer as a self - sacrificing hero ; or that represented the little Monitor that eventful day on Hampton Roads as diving under the Merrimac and tossing it ashore on its beak ? The nature fakers take ...
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... evil report has it come , through slime and ooze , and reptile and fish , through monsters and dragons , and cat- aclysm , and cosmic winters and summers , and has arrived safely at last with man on its crest . - Of course the animals ...
... evil report has it come , through slime and ooze , and reptile and fish , through monsters and dragons , and cat- aclysm , and cosmic winters and summers , and has arrived safely at last with man on its crest . - Of course the animals ...
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... evil it has wrought , the mistakes and self- delusions it has given rise to . One may probably say that in its healthy and legitimate action it has given rise to poetry and to art and to the many - escapes which the imagination provides ...
... evil it has wrought , the mistakes and self- delusions it has given rise to . One may probably say that in its healthy and legitimate action it has given rise to poetry and to art and to the many - escapes which the imagination provides ...
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... earthy , has been so long under the ban , so long associated in our minds with that which hinders and degrades , and as the source and province of evil , that it will take sci- ence a long time to redeem it and lift it 220 LEAF AND TENDRIL.
... earthy , has been so long under the ban , so long associated in our minds with that which hinders and degrades , and as the source and province of evil , that it will take sci- ence a long time to redeem it and lift it 220 LEAF AND TENDRIL.
Seite 221
... evil spirits that have so long terrified man- kind , and justified the verdict of the Creator : " and behold it was good " ! With its indestructibility of matter , its conservation of energy , its inviolability of cause and effect , its ...
... evil spirits that have so long terrified man- kind , and justified the verdict of the Creator : " and behold it was good " ! With its indestructibility of matter , its conservation of energy , its inviolability of cause and effect , its ...
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.