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 56
... trees stretched in a tumbling sea down the slope toward the Piedmont , a trio of turkey buzzards swung slowly ... trees provide another . Here , rooted where Thomas Jefferson had planted them in the eighteenth century , stood ancient ...
... trees stretched in a tumbling sea down the slope toward the Piedmont , a trio of turkey buzzards swung slowly ... trees provide another . Here , rooted where Thomas Jefferson had planted them in the eighteenth century , stood ancient ...
Page 57
... trees , the events of spring represented merely an old , old sequence . One hundred twenty , one hundred fifty times , or more , a fresh mantle of leaves had taken the place of those which had fallen in autumn . Their green varied from tree ...
... trees , the events of spring represented merely an old , old sequence . One hundred twenty , one hundred fifty times , or more , a fresh mantle of leaves had taken the place of those which had fallen in autumn . Their green varied from tree ...
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... trees . It's all a matter of keeping my eyes open . Nature is like one of those line drawings of a tree that are puzzles for children : Can you find hidden in the leaves a duck , a house , a boy , a bucket , a zebra , and a boot ...
... trees . It's all a matter of keeping my eyes open . Nature is like one of those line drawings of a tree that are puzzles for children : Can you find hidden in the leaves a duck , a house , a boy , a bucket , a zebra , and a boot ...
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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