Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology of American Writers and the American LandRobert C. Baron, Elizabeth Darby Junkin An anthology of poetry, short stores, and excerpts from longer works about the American experience of the land and nature by a variety of American authors past and present. |
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Page 92
... eyes , ears , nostrils and finger tips , opening up the disused channels of sensory impression . For most of us , knowledge of our world comes largely through sight , yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind ...
... eyes , ears , nostrils and finger tips , opening up the disused channels of sensory impression . For most of us , knowledge of our world comes largely through sight , yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind ...
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... eyes would focus along that column of air , picking out flying in- sects . But I lost interest , I guess , for I dropped the habit . Now I can see birds . Probably some people can look at the grass at their feet and dis- cover all the ...
... eyes would focus along that column of air , picking out flying in- sects . But I lost interest , I guess , for I dropped the habit . Now I can see birds . Probably some people can look at the grass at their feet and dis- cover all the ...
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... eyes . I close my eyes and I see stars , deep stars giving way to deeper stars , deeper stars blowing to deepest stars at the crown of an infinite cone . " Still , " wrote Van Gogh in a letter , " a great deal of light falls on ...
... eyes . I close my eyes and I see stars , deep stars giving way to deeper stars , deeper stars blowing to deepest stars at the crown of an infinite cone . " Still , " wrote Van Gogh in a letter , " a great deal of light falls on ...
Contents
John and Mildred Teal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh | 14 |
Hal Borland High Wide and Lonesome | 30 |
William W Warner Beautiful Swimmers | 48 |
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