The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrillHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1908 |
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... observation . Some are only half alive to what is going on around them . Others , again , are keenly alive : their intelligence , their powers of recognition , are in full force in eye and ear at all times . They see and hear every ...
... observation . Some are only half alive to what is going on around them . Others , again , are keenly alive : their intelligence , their powers of recognition , are in full force in eye and ear at all times . They see and hear every ...
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... observation ; proba- bly very few . It denoted a gift for seeing things . If our powers of observation were quick and sure enough , no doubt we should see through most of the tricks of the sleight - of - hand man . He fools us because ...
... observation ; proba- bly very few . It denoted a gift for seeing things . If our powers of observation were quick and sure enough , no doubt we should see through most of the tricks of the sleight - of - hand man . He fools us because ...
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... observation . The art of the bird is to hide her nest ; the art of the game you are in quest of is to make itself invisible . The flower seeks to attract the bee and the moth by its color and perfume , because they are of service to it ...
... observation . The art of the bird is to hide her nest ; the art of the game you are in quest of is to make itself invisible . The flower seeks to attract the bee and the moth by its color and perfume , because they are of service to it ...
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... observe nothing . Of course one's powers of observation may be cultivated as well as anything else . The senses of seeing and hearing may be quickened and trained as well as the sense of touch . Blind persons come to be marvelously ...
... observe nothing . Of course one's powers of observation may be cultivated as well as anything else . The senses of seeing and hearing may be quickened and trained as well as the sense of touch . Blind persons come to be marvelously ...
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... observing , if you are not in communion with the very soul of spring , then there is a want of soul in you . You may hear the first swallow twittering from the sky above you , or the first mellow drum of the grouse come up from the ...
... observing , if you are not in communion with the very soul of spring , then there is a want of soul in you . You may hear the first swallow twittering from the sky above you , or the first mellow drum of the grouse come up from the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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.