Some Spring Days in Iowa

Some Spring Days in Iowa

A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book. It is indeed a pleasure thus to open the gate while my friend leads us away from the din and rush of the city into Gods great out-of-doors. Having walked with him on Some Winter Days, one is all the more eager to follow him in the gentler months of Springthat mother-season, with its brooding pathos, and its seeds stirring in their sleep as if they dreamed of flowers. Our guide is at once an expert and a friend, a man of science and a poet. If he should sleep a year, like dear old Rip, he would know, by the calendar of the flowers, what day of the month he awoke. He knows the story of trees, the arts of insects, the habits of birds and their parts of speech. His wealth of detail is amazing, but never wearying, and he is happily allusive to the nature-lore of the poets, and to the legends and myths of the woodland. He has the[6] insight of Thoreau, the patience of Burroughs, and a nameless quality of his owna blend of joyous love and wonder. His style is as lucid as sunlight, investing his pages with something of the simplicity and calm of Nature herself. The fine sanity and health of the man are in the book, as of one to whom the beauty of the world is reason enough for life, and an invitation to live well. He does not preachthough he sometimes stops to point to a forest vista, or a sunset, where the colors are melted into a beauty too fair and frail for this earth. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18227
Author: Lazell, Frederick John
Release Date: Apr 22, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English