The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrillHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1908 |
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... protective value of the spots . The white spots of the fawn did blend in with the daisies , and certainly rendered the fawn less con- spicuous than it would have been without them , but I am slow to believe that the fawn has spots that ...
... protective value of the spots . The white spots of the fawn did blend in with the daisies , and certainly rendered the fawn less con- spicuous than it would have been without them , but I am slow to believe that the fawn has spots that ...
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... protective value , or the protective value of the dusky coat , is the reason for its being , is another question . This theory of the protective coloration of animals has been one of the generally accepted ideas in all works upon ...
... protective value , or the protective value of the dusky coat , is the reason for its being , is another question . This theory of the protective coloration of animals has been one of the generally accepted ideas in all works upon ...
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... protective - colorists , but not much farther . Wallace goes to the extent of believing that even nuts are protectively colored because they are not to be eaten . But without the agency of birds and the small rodents , the wingless nuts ...
... protective - colorists , but not much farther . Wallace goes to the extent of believing that even nuts are protectively colored because they are not to be eaten . But without the agency of birds and the small rodents , the wingless nuts ...
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... protective coloration . The more local an animal is , the more its color assimilates with its surroundings ; or perhaps I should say , the more uniform its habitat , the more assimilative its coloring . The valley quail of Cali- fornia ...
... protective coloration . The more local an animal is , the more its color assimilates with its surroundings ; or perhaps I should say , the more uniform its habitat , the more assimilative its coloring . The valley quail of Cali- fornia ...
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... protective , then bright colors are non - protective or dangerous , and one wonders why all birds of gay feather have not been cut off and the species exterminated : or why , in cases where the males are bright - colored and the females ...
... protective , then bright colors are non - protective or dangerous , and one wonders why all birds of gay feather have not been cut off and the species exterminated : or why , in cases where the males are bright - colored and the females ...
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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.