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Nature Myths and Stories for Little ChildrenNature Myths and Stories for Little ChildrenEELING the great need of stories founded upon good literature, which are within the comprehension of little children, I have written the following stories, hoping that they may suggest to primary teachers the great wealth of material within...
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NatureNatureOUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why...
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Policeman BluejayPoliceman BluejayI MUST admit that the great success of the "TWINKLE TALES" has astonished me as much as it has delighted the solemn-eyed, hard working publishers. Therefore I have been encouraged to write a new "TWINKLE BOOK," hoping with all my heart that my...
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The Book of Nature MythsThe Book of Nature MythsIn preparing the Book of Nature Myths the desire has been to make a second reader which would be adapted to the child's interest, ability, and progress. The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of the primitive...
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The Concept of NatureThe Concept of Nature - The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919The contents of this book were originally delivered at Trinity College in the autumn of 1919 as the inaugural course of Tarner lectures. The Tarner lectureship is an occasional office founded...
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Nature MysticismNature MysticismThe aims of this study of Nature Mysticism, and the methods adopted for attaining them, are sufficiently described in the introductory chapter. It may be said, by way of special preface, that the nature mystic here portrayed is essentially a "modern." He is...
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OrthodoxyOrthodoxyThe only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. When some time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under the name of...
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In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John BurroughsIn the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs The eight essays in this volume all deal with the home region of their author; for not only did Mr. Burroughs begin life in the Catskills, and dwell among them until early manhood, but,...
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The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern TimesThe Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern TimesNature in her ever-constant, ever-changing phases is indispensable to man, his whole existence depends upon her, and she influences him in manifold ways, in mind as well as body. The physical...
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The Pearl BoxThe Pearl Box - Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a PastorIn preparing this volume of stories for young readers, the writer has had in view their instruction, by presenting to them the duties of their station in a familiar and...
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The Pearl BoxThe Pearl Box - Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People In preparing this volume of stories for young readers, the writer has had in view their instruction, by presenting to them their station in a familiar and instructive story. Each story contains...
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A Little Boy LostA Little Boy LostSome like to be one thing, some another. There is so much to be done, so many different things to do, so many trades! Shepherds, soldiers, sailors, ploughmen, cartersone could go on all day naming without getting to the end of...
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Gone to EarthGone to EarthSmall feckless clouds were hurried across the vast untroubled skyshepherdless, futile, imponderableand were torn to fragments on the fangs of the mountains, so ending their ephemeral adventures with nothing of their fugitive existence left but a few tears. It was cold in...
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The Life of the FieldsThe Life of the FieldsMy thanks are due to those editors who have so kindly permitted me to reprint the following pages:"The Field-Play" appeared in Time; "Bits of Oak Bark" and "The Pageant of Summer" in Longman's Magazine; "Meadow Thoughts" and "Mind under Water"...
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The Earth as Modified by Human ActionThe Earth as Modified by Human Action"Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as MAN, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came...
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Birds and Poets : with Other PapersBirds and Poets : with Other Papers I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside...
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"The Kingdom of God Is Within You""The Kingdom of God Is Within You" - Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of LifeIn the year 1884 I wrote a book under the title "What I Believe," in which I did in fact make a sincere statement...
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WalkingWalking I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to...
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Rivers to the SeaRivers to the SeaWhy am I crying after love With youth, a singing voice and eyes To take earth's wonder with surprise? Why have I put off my pride, Why am I unsatisfied, I for whom the pensive night Binds her cloudy hair with...
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OrthodoxyOrthodoxy This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is...
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