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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... nature and a sense of being integral with the natural world are deep - seated among us and have roots far back in the north- ern European past . Perhaps only in the art of China and Japan could one find comparable expression of such ...
... nature and a sense of being integral with the natural world are deep - seated among us and have roots far back in the north- ern European past . Perhaps only in the art of China and Japan could one find comparable expression of such ...
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... Nature , Peace and Self - Definition 1 . I Da zi ran . In the Chinese language , the concept of nature is built from characters meaning " the big place from which the self emerges . " Although the indiginous peoples of the North ...
... Nature , Peace and Self - Definition 1 . I Da zi ran . In the Chinese language , the concept of nature is built from characters meaning " the big place from which the self emerges . " Although the indiginous peoples of the North ...
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... nature . In 1864 , the English scientist , George Perkins Marsh , pondered whether man was in fact a child of God or a child of nature . His conclusion was that we were children of both . Thus began a new cycle of looking to the land as ...
... nature . In 1864 , the English scientist , George Perkins Marsh , pondered whether man was in fact a child of God or a child of nature . His conclusion was that we were children of both . Thus began a new cycle of looking to the land as ...
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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