The Writings of John Burroughs: Far and nearHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1904 |
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afternoon Alaska amid anchor August beach beak beautiful beneath Bering Sea bird bloom blue boat bobolink bushes called chickadees clouds color Cook Inlet dark deep downy woodpecker eggs eight feet high flight flowers forests front glacier grass green ground hand Harriman hawk head heard hermit thrush hills horned lark huge hundred feet Indian inlet island Jamaica Kadiak land Lapland longspur larvæ looked male miles morning moss mother bird moun mountains Muir Muir Glacier nearly nest night party passed peaks perch Prince William Sound probably purple river robin rocks rocky seemed seen ship shore Shoshone Falls side smooth snow snow bunting song song sparrow soon sparrow species spruce stream summer thousand feet thrush tree valley vast walk warbler wild wings winter winter wren woodpeckers woods Yakutat Bay yards young
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Seite 267 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Seite 267 - That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim : Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known...
Seite 40 - What is that roar or explosion that salutes our ears before our anchor has found bottom ? It is the downpour of an enormous mass of ice from the glacier's front, making it for the moment as active as Niagara. Other and still other downpours follow at intervals of a few minutes, with deep explosive sounds and the rising up of great clouds of spray, and we quickly realize that here is indeed a new kind of Niagara, a cataract the like of which we have not before seen, a mighty congealed river that discharges...
Seite 23 - Saguenay, and the Rangeley Lakes in Maine, with the addition of towering snowcapped peaks thrown in for a background. The edge of this part of the continent for a thousand miles has been broken into fragments, small and great, as by the stroke of some earth-cracking hammer, and into the openings and channels thus formed the sea flows freely, often at a depth of from one to two thousand feet.
Seite 92 - Kadiak, I think, won a place in the hearts of all of us. Our spirits probably touched the highest point here. If we had other days that were epic, these days were lyric. To me they were certainly more exquisite and thrilling than' any before or after. I feel as if I wanted to go back to Kadiak, almost as if I could return there to live, — so secluded, so remote, so peaceful; such a mingling of the domestic, the pastoral, the sylvan, with the wild and the rugged ; such emerald heights, such flowery...
Seite 98 - Shishaldin, both of which penetrate the clouds at an altitude of nearly 9,000 feet. These are on Unimak Island at the end of the peninsula. Our first glimpse was of a black cone ending in a point far above a heavy mass of cloud. It seemed buoyed up there by the clouds. There was nothing visible beneath it to indicate the presence of a mountain. Then the clouds blotted it out; but presently the veil was brushed aside again, and before long we saw both mountains from base to summit and noted the vast...
Seite 149 - I feel, as, on rounding some point or curve in the stream, two or more ducks spring suddenly out from some little cove or indentation in the shore, and with an alarum Quack, quack, launch into the air and quickly gain the free spaces above the tree-tops, for the satisfaction of the gunner who sees their dead bodies fall before his murderous fire. He has only a dead duck, which, the chances are, he will not find very toothsome at this season, while I have a live duck with whistling \\ wings cleaving...
Seite 101 - I had seen much but had been intimate with little; now if I could only have a few days of that kind of intimacy with this new nature, which the saunterer, the camper-out, the stroller through fields in the summer twilight has, I should be more content; but in the afternoon the ship was off into Bering Sea headed for the Seal Islands, and I was aboard her, with wistful and reverted eyes. The...
Seite 99 - OH, thou northland bobolink, Looking over Summer's brink Up to Winter, worn and dim, Peering down from mountain rim, Something takes me in thy note, Quivering wing, and bubbling throat; Something moves me in thy ways — Bird, rejoicing in thy days, In thy upward-hovering flight; In thy suit of black and white, Chestnut cape and circled crown, In thy mate of speckled brown; Surely I may pause and think Of my boyhood's...
Seite 133 - Slabsides," because its outer walls are covered with slabs. I might have given it a prettier name, but not one more fit or more in keeping with the mood that brought me thither. A slab is the first cut from the log, and the bark goes with it. It is like the first cut from the loaf, which we call the crust, and which the children reject, but which we older ones often prefer. I wanted to take a fresh cut of life— something that had the bark on, or, if you please, that was like a well-browned and...