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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... woods , but countless numbers are in open farming country . They run from great sunlit sheets with many islands to the most perfect tiny hidden forest jewels , places utterly lonely and apart , mirroring only the depths of the green woods ...
... woods , but countless numbers are in open farming country . They run from great sunlit sheets with many islands to the most perfect tiny hidden forest jewels , places utterly lonely and apart , mirroring only the depths of the green woods ...
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... woods around the pond , imparted a bright- ness like sunshine to the landscape , especially in cloudy days , as if ... woods completed ; and the second year was similar to it . I finally left Walden September 6th , 1847 . I left the ...
... woods around the pond , imparted a bright- ness like sunshine to the landscape , especially in cloudy days , as if ... woods completed ; and the second year was similar to it . I finally left Walden September 6th , 1847 . I left the ...
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... woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life is al- ways a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these planta- tions of God , a decorum and sanctity reign , a perennial ...
... woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life is al- ways a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these planta- tions of God , a decorum and sanctity reign , a perennial ...
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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