The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrillHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1908 |
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... fruit - bearing canes , cut the tendrils from the wires , chasten and humble them , and make them pause and consider . And they consider very well , for in a day or two the fruit - bunches swell perceptibly . Then later , in July , we ...
... fruit - bearing canes , cut the tendrils from the wires , chasten and humble them , and make them pause and consider . And they consider very well , for in a day or two the fruit - bunches swell perceptibly . Then later , in July , we ...
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... brought it to the ground , to feed upon its seeds ; here it gets the first fruits of the season . The first red and white clover heads have just opened , the yellow rock - rose and the sweet viburnum are in 28 LEAF AND TENDRIL.
... brought it to the ground , to feed upon its seeds ; here it gets the first fruits of the season . The first red and white clover heads have just opened , the yellow rock - rose and the sweet viburnum are in 28 LEAF AND TENDRIL.
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... fruit and seed catalogues are interesting reading , and that the cuts of farm implements have a new fascination . The soil calls to one . All over the country , people are responding to the call , and are buying farms and moving upon ...
... fruit and seed catalogues are interesting reading , and that the cuts of farm implements have a new fascination . The soil calls to one . All over the country , people are responding to the call , and are buying farms and moving upon ...
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... fruits so highly colored and others so neutral ? This law of endless variation is no doubt at the bottom of all these things . The bird has varied in color from its parent , and as the variation has not told against it , it has gone on ...
... fruits so highly colored and others so neutral ? This law of endless variation is no doubt at the bottom of all these things . The bird has varied in color from its parent , and as the variation has not told against it , it has gone on ...
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... their favor , but still more so , I believe , are their feeding habits . Compared with the orchard oriole , they are miscellaneous feeders ; insects and fruit and even green peas are in their bill of 85 GAY PLUMES AND DULL.
... their favor , but still more so , I believe , are their feeding habits . Compared with the orchard oriole , they are miscellaneous feeders ; insects and fruit and even green peas are in their bill of 85 GAY PLUMES AND DULL.
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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.