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 131
... whole century had passed in a single night , one can never quite define this secret ; but it has something to do , I am sure , with common water . Its substance reaches everywhere ; it touches the past and prepares the future ; it moves ...
... whole century had passed in a single night , one can never quite define this secret ; but it has something to do , I am sure , with common water . Its substance reaches everywhere ; it touches the past and prepares the future ; it moves ...
Page 306
... whole had been con- tracted in Holland . The interest of this sum would be five hundred milliards , which is the whole rent - roll or net proceeds of the territory of France . Must the present generation of men have retired from the ...
... whole had been con- tracted in Holland . The interest of this sum would be five hundred milliards , which is the whole rent - roll or net proceeds of the territory of France . Must the present generation of men have retired from the ...
Page 340
... whole point . The whole point is that we depend ultimately on an everlasting drive for unity whose wellsprings we did not create but can only draw upon or try to re - create . The whole point is the human commitment of human experience ...
... whole point . The whole point is that we depend ultimately on an everlasting drive for unity whose wellsprings we did not create but can only draw upon or try to re - create . The whole point is the human commitment of human experience ...
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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