Riverby

RiverbyA YEAR IN THE FIELDS. Selections appropriate to each season of the year, from the writings of...
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Author: Burroughs, John,1837-1921
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Language: English
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Riverby

Riverby

€6,27

Riverby

€6,27
Author: Burroughs, John,1837-1921
Format: eBook
Language: English

Riverby

A YEAR IN THE FIELDS. Selections appropriate to each season of the year, from the writings of John Burroughs. Illustrated from Photographs by Clifton Johnson. Uniform with the Riverside Edition of Burroughs's works. 12mo, $1.50. I have often said to myself, "Why should not one name his books as he names his children, arbitrarily, and let the name come to mean much or little, as the case may be?" In the case of the present volumeprobably my last collection of Out-of-door PapersI have taken this course, and have given to the book the name of my place here on the Hudson, "Riverby," by the river, where the sketches were written, and where for so many years I have been an interested spectator of the life of nature, as, with the changing seasons, it has ebbed and flowed past my door. Nearly every season I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist. One likes to have his floral acquaintances come to him easily and naturally, like his other friends. Some pleasant occasion should bring you together. You meet in a walk, or touch elbows on a picnic under a tree, or get acquainted on a fishing or camping-out expedition. What comes to you in the way of birds or flowers, while wooing only the large spirit of open-air nature, seems like special good fortune. At any rate, one does not want to bolt his botany, but rather to prolong the course. One likes to have something in reserve, something to be on the lookout for on his walks. I have never yet found the orchid called calypso, a large, variegated purple and yellow [2]flower, Gray says, which grows in cold, wet woods and bogs,very beautiful and very rare. Calypso, you know, was the nymph who fell in love with Ulysses and detained him seven years upon her island, and died of a broken heart after he left her. I have a keen desire to see her in her floral guise, reigning over some silent bog, or rising above the moss of some dark glen in the woods, and would gladly be the Ulysses to be detained at least a few hours by her. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45307
Author: Burroughs, John
Release Date: Apr 2, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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