 The book of nature is like a page written over or printed upon with different-sized characters and in many different languages, interlined and crosslined, and with a great variety of marginal notes and references. There is coarse print and fine print;...  Leaf and Tendril - Seite 14von John Burroughs - 1908 - 288 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Max O'Rell - 1902 - 342 Seiten
...faces at the doors and windows. ' The book of Nature,' says John Burroughs in one of his best essays, ' is like a page written over or printed upon with different-sized...a great variety of marginal notes and references.' page of this marvellous record, and to dwell fondly upon its most obscure texts. You seldom take a... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 Seiten
...definite, the discipline of real things, the educational values that lie here, are not enough appreciated. The book of nature is like a page written over or printed upon with different sized characters and in many different languages, interlined and cross-lined, and with a... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1908 - 332 Seiten
...the discipline of real things, the educational values that lie here, are not enough appreciated. rv The book of nature is like a page written over or...crosslined, and with a great variety of marginal notes 12 and references. There is coarse print and fine print; there are obscure signs and hieroglyphics.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1908 - 328 Seiten
...the discipline of real things, the educational values that lie here, are not enough appreciated. IV The book of nature is like a page written over or...crosslined, and with a great variety of marginal notes 12 and references. There is coarse print and fine print; there are obscure signs and hieroglyphics.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1908 - 326 Seiten
...the discipline of real things, the educational values that lie here, are not enough appreciated. IV The book of nature is like a page written over or...crosslined, and with a great variety of marginal notes 12 and references. There is coarse print and fine print; there are obscure signs and hieroglyphics.... | |
 | Arthur Adelbert Taylor - 1912 - 152 Seiten
...John Burroughs was never in the forest, he delineates it perfectly when in one of his essays he says: ''The book of nature is like a page written over or printed upon with different sized characters, and in many different languages, interlined and crosslined, and with a... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1923 - 352 Seiten
...untangle the skeins, distinguish between the commonplace and the significant. In the book of nature, "there is coarse print and fine print; there are obscure...only the students and lovers of nature read the fine line and the footnotes. . . . For my part, my delight is to linger long over each page of this marvelous... | |
 | David Mazel - 2001 - 388 Seiten
...untangle the skeins, distinguish between the commonplace and the significant. In the book of nature, "there is coarse print and fine print; there are obscure...only the students and lovers of nature read the fine line and the footnotes. . . . For my part, my delight is to linger long over each page of this marvelous... | |
 | Klaas van Berkel, Arie Johan Vanderjagt - 2006 - 360 Seiten
...in the same essay, it becomes even clearer how actively Burroughs is visualising nature as a book: The book of nature is like a page written over or...print and fine print; there are obscure signs and hierogyphics.21 His language suggests the universality and vastness of this 'book'; it is, indeed,... | |
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