The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1894 |
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... Trees 409 II . Flowers and Shrubs 410 III . List of Plants . 415 IV . List of Birds 426 V. Quadrupeds 428 VI . Outfit for an Excursion 428 VII . A List of Indian Words . 430 INTRODUCTORY NOTE The Maine Woods was the second volume col-
... Trees 409 II . Flowers and Shrubs 410 III . List of Plants . 415 IV . List of Birds 426 V. Quadrupeds 428 VI . Outfit for an Excursion 428 VII . A List of Indian Words . 430 INTRODUCTORY NOTE The Maine Woods was the second volume col-
Pagina 8
... unnamed and unincorporated wil- derness , was to make a distinction without a difference , it seemed to me . Here , however , I noticed quite an orchard of healthy and well- + grown apple - trees , in a bearing state , 8 THE MAINE WOODS.
... unnamed and unincorporated wil- derness , was to make a distinction without a difference , it seemed to me . Here , however , I noticed quite an orchard of healthy and well- + grown apple - trees , in a bearing state , 8 THE MAINE WOODS.
Pagina 9
... trees , in a bearing state , it being the oldest settler's house in this region , but all natural fruit and comparatively worthless for want of a grafter . And so it is generally , lower down the river . It would be a good speculation ...
... trees , in a bearing state , it being the oldest settler's house in this region , but all natural fruit and comparatively worthless for want of a grafter . And so it is generally , lower down the river . It would be a good speculation ...
Pagina 12
... trees only the deer and moose , the bear and wolf can easily penetrate . More perfect specimens than any front - yard plot can show grew there to grace the passage of the Houlton teams . About noon we reached the Mattawamkeag , fifty ...
... trees only the deer and moose , the bear and wolf can easily penetrate . More perfect specimens than any front - yard plot can show grew there to grace the passage of the Houlton teams . About noon we reached the Mattawamkeag , fifty ...
Pagina 16
... , found good - sized potatoes , nearly ripe , growing like weeds , and turnips mixed with them . The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees , and burn once } what will burn , then cut them up into 16 THE MAINE WOODS.
... , found good - sized potatoes , nearly ripe , growing like weeds , and turnips mixed with them . The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees , and burn once } what will burn , then cut them up into 16 THE MAINE WOODS.
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster baggage Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp Canadensis canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance East Branch falls farther feet high fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake hunter inches Indian island Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Maine woods Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake morning Mount Kineo mountain Mud Pond musquash night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag passed Penobscot perhaps pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rock rocky rods seen shore side smooth sometimes soon spruce swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white spruce white-pine white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Pagina 212 - The kings of England formerly had their forests "to hold the king's game," for sport or food, sometimes destroying villages to create or extend them; and I think that they were impelled by a true instinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," — our forests, not to hold the king's...
Pagina 295 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Pagina 94 - Earth, as it was made forever and ever, — to be the dwelling of man we say, — so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can. Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific, — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in, — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there, — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate.
Pagina 93 - Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man.
Pagina 71 - While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so many dark ages; — these bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made 90 beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there!
Pagina 107 - What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt-lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated, a damp and intricate wilderness, in the spring everywhere wet and miry.
Pagina 95 - What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
Pagina 75 - Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain I have seen, there being a greater proportion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if it were some fragment of a wall which anciently bounded the earth in that direction.
Pagina 108 - ... to the white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian. Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest...