The Clerk of the WoodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 280 Seiten Collection of nature essays in the vein of Thoreau, Muir and Burroughs. -- vendor's description. |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
apple autumn beauty berries better birch birds blossoms bluebirds bobolink branch bright bunch bushes cat-tail chickadees color downy woodpecker dunlin ears edge field sparrow flight flock flowers flying fox sparrow gallinule gone grass green ground half handsome hardhack hear heard hill hour kind leaves less listen live look lovely marsh meadow mile month morning nest never once ornithology palm warbler passed pasture perhaps pine pine warbler pleasure poet pretty purple finch red-eyed vireo remember road roadside rose-breasted grosbeak sandpipers season seemed seen side sight singing song sparrow sound spot spring squirrels summer sure swallows swamp talk tall things Thoreau thought tree turn twig vesper sparrow vireo voice walk warbler weather whistle wind wing winter wonder woods yellow yellow-throated vireo young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 176 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 127 - 11 go nutting once more. We '11 pluck the nut of the world and crack it in the winter evenings. Theatres and all other sight-seeing are puppet shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth, I recognize my friend.
Seite 145 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Seite 157 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness -I look not for it if it be not in the present hour — nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights - or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Seite 262 - ... alighted on the body of the tree. It would then run to the top and once more precipitate itself from the upper branches, and sail back again to the tree it had just left. Crowds of these little creatures joined in these sportive gambols; there could not have been less than two hundred. Scores of them would leave each tree at the same moment, and cross each other, gliding like spirits through the air, seeming to have no other object in view than to indulge a playful propensity.
Seite 111 - Softly the sand-beach wavers away to a dim gray looping of light. And what if behind me to westward the wall of the woods stands high ? The world lies east : how ample, the marsh and the sea and the sky...
Seite 218 - Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds, The innumerable tenements of beauty, The miracle of generative force, Far-reaching concords of astronomy Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds; Better, the linked purpose of the whole, And, chiefest prize, found I true liberty In the glad home plain-dealing Nature gave.
Seite 152 - I ate a bunch of raisins for my breakfast, a piece of goat's flesh, or of the turtle, for my dinner...
Seite 128 - This Morrow that is ever knocking with irresistible force at our door, there is no such guest as that. I will stay at home and receive company. I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here ! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here.
Seite 88 - ... the familiar, squeaking notes of a hummer, and thinking that their persistency must be occasioned by some unusual trouble, went out to investigate. Sure enough, there hung the bird in a spider's web attached to a rosebush, while the owner of the web, a big yellow-and-brown, pot-bellied, bloodthirsty rascal, was turning its victim over and over, winding the web about it. Wings and legs were already fast, so that all the bird could do was to cry for help. And help had come. The man at once killed...