 ... the blue-jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the fish-hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams; at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of wolves; in summer, swarming with myriads of...  Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress - Pagina 71door James R. Babb - 2002 - 224 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 462 pagina’s
...diversified with innumerable lakes and rapid streams, peopled with trout and various species of leucisci, with salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes;...Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and ~i immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be mid-winter, is ever in her spring,... | |
 | Leo Stoller - 1957 - 184 pagina’s
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 | Bernd Heinrich - 1994 - 242 pagina’s
...resounding at rare intervals with the note of the chicadee, the blue-jay, and the woodpecker . . . ; and at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of...mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man" (Thoreau 1972). The only difference between then and now is that instead of the howling of wolves one... | |
 | 1934 - 530 pagina’s
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