# ent

id: 6019
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Organic Life--Geographical Importance of Plants--Origin of Domestic Vegetables--Transfer of Vegetable Life--


id: 6019
type: TIME
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  between twelve o''clock at noon on the 10th of September of that year and ten o''clock the next morning


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id: 14108
title: In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
author: Burroughs, John
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  His feet are like great pads, and his track has little of the birds, especially the ground-builders, suffer in like manner from passed their days, they cut a road through the woods and brought Walking the other day in an old hemlock wood, I counted over forty time in the same locality, rivaling each other, like the wood thrush this bird to build upon the ground, yet here is the nest, made found the nest of one in an uplying beech wood, in a low bush near the bird return to her nest, which appeared like a mere wart or Following a trout stream up a wild mountain gorge, not long Slide, five miles of primitive woods, how wild and cool it looks, Our course lay along an old wood-road, and much of the time we were till near the top of the mountain; but, when looking to see it


id: 22420
title: The Book of Nature Myths
author: Holbrook, Florence
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  perish," he said, "but you little, gentle flame, shall have wings and One day the woodpecker said to the Great Spirit, "Men do not like me. The Great Spirit said, "If you wish men to love you, you must be good to One day the Great Spirit asked all the animals that he had made to come "The serpent shall have the frog''s blood," said the Great Spirit. One night the mole came to the quail and said, "Your little son is in "Come to me, every bird that flies," said the Great Father. "Yes," said the Father, "even my little humming-bird can help me." land." So the rich man said, "Come in the morning, and we shall soon see "Oh, you must know us well," said a man coming out into the light. bird said, "Great oak-tree, you are so strong, will you not let me live


id: 28552
title: Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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  "I haven''t read a book in a long time," said Twinkle. "Why, if you feel that way," said the little girl, "you''re just as bad "Now, little girl," said he, "you must step in the trap and get caught." bird had a queer way of turning his head on one side to look at Twinkle of a gentle little girl, Jim Crow had no thought of saying good-bye to care at all to know what we said, Mister Jim Crow." "Why, it''s a Prairie-Dog Town," said Twinkle. "Thank you," said Twinkle, walking along the hall and feeling her way by "The little dears are _so_ restless," Mrs. Puff-Pudgy said to Twinkle, "I''m Twinkle," said the girl, drawing a long breath. "I don''t know," said Twinkle. "You can''t be," said Twinkle, sitting down in the path and looking "Dear me," said Twinkle, looking after it; "I''m afraid the Rolling Stone "We''re not made of sugar," said Twinkle.


id: 29433
title: Nature
author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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summary:
  the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. A NOBLER want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of influence of the forms and actions in nature, is so needful to man, LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. plant,--to what affecting analogies in the nature of man, is that little permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open IT is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. a part of the nature of things; the world is a divine dream, from natures of justice and truth, and we learn that man has access to the of man upon nature with his entire force,--with reason as well as


id: 27951
title: Policeman Bluejay
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
txt: ./txt/27951.txt
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  "That''s so," said Chubbins, fluttering his little wings to keep from "Nor I!" cried Chubbins, in his shrill, bird-like voice. "You see," said Twinkle, "we are not _all_ birds, Mr. Bluejay, as you "Good day, friend eagle," said the bluejay; "I hope you are in no "If we''re going to be birds," said Chubbins, who was also busily eating "Tell me," said Twinkle, appealing to the bluejay; "are the big birds Chubbins, and both the bird-children flew into their basket and "But they are cruel," said Twinkle, "and kill innocent, harmless birds Even before Twinkle and Chubbins were awake the birds were "You know our regulations," said he; "no birds of the forest are forest birds were like you, my friend, there would be little danger in Twinkle and Chubbins flew slowly home to their nests in the maple tree, "I''m sorry we did not ask Policeman Bluejay," said Chubbins.


id: 31167
title: The Old Willow Tree, and Other Stories
author: Ewald, Carl
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  "Thank you for your shade, you good Willow-Tree," he said. "Poor Willow-Tree!" said the wild rose-bush. "Poor Willow-Tree!" said the rose-bush. "What are those funny little things up in the willow-tree''s top?" said "That''s not my way of thinking," said the willow-tree. "I know what you''re thinking of," said the willow-tree, sadly. about the willow-tree; the elder-bush said it would be all right; the "Who ever heard a tree talk like that?" said the oak. "Thank you, you good old Willow-Tree," said the dandelion. "Yes," said the old willow-tree. "Now I can hold out no longer," said the old willow-tree. "Come and look up here," said the tree. "If they come, we''ll do for them!" said the little oak-tree. "Do you think so, cousin?" said the wood-mouse. "Wait a little longer, cousin," said the house-mouse. "I have heard a little about him," said the wood-mouse.


id: 30800
title: Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
author: Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
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summary:
  "I know," said Golden Hair, "Let us go and ask the woman on the hill Golden Hair said, "we know you are wise and we came to see if you would "They say, ''Here comes the king, men call wise, and good and great. The Queen said, "Happy indeed, must be your people, wise king. Athena saw her and said in pity, "No, you shall not die; live and do the On the fifth day his son said to him, "Father, take me home or I shall The sixth day came and the little boy lay upon the mat white and still. The Sun saw her and said, "Come, White Cloud, I am your king, I will "Come to the hill across from the great blue mountains," he said. In the morning, when they saw the great blue mountains and the beautiful One day the great Shiva saw a little gray chipmunk on the seashore.


id: 13814
title: The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
author: Biese, Alfred
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summary:
  clever, terse sketches of the feeling for Nature in different times Birds,[2] clouds, and waves are messengers of love; all Nature heaven, earth, sea and river, hill and wood, rose, lily, and star to Feeling for Nature and love of his friend are interwoven into a truly There is little about Nature in this beautiful avowal of love and literature at this time shewed any of the national love of Nature, of Nature--spring with its flowers, the green fields and the Love of solitude and feeling for Nature limit or increase each other; beauty, yet, like a great painter, he brings all Nature into sympathy His feeling for Nature was clear; he loved to take his reader into book of songs, we find deep feeling for Nature mingled with his love wrote many little songs full of feeling for Nature, though within example--discover our modern feeling for Nature; the great men of the


id: 5177
title: Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
author: Burroughs, John
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  woodpecker flitting among the trees,--a bird that shows like a But when the general reader thinks of the birds of the poets, he very naturally calls to mind the renowned birds, the lark and the But so far only one Southern poet, Wilde, has accredited the bird birds of the far north, and seen in the States only in fall and winter, Some birds represent the majesty of nature, like the eagles; others its its sweetness and melody, like the song-birds. or murder young birds, or torture frogs or squirrels, is like Nature''s the pigeon and grouse, ever die of old age, or the semi-game-birds, like in the air and traversing the world openly, like most birds, but earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the especially makes his books spring-like is their freshness and sweet good "Drum-Taps;" but all the great poems, like "Walt Whitman," "Song of


id: 596
title: Rivers to the Sea
author: Teasdale, Sara
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  LOOK back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow, IN my heart the old love Open your dreams to my love and your heart to my words, His song brought love as April brings the bird, Love in my heart is a cry forever I AM free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn, I love you, I give you my light to keep. I love to think that never tears at night I LOVE my hour of wind and light, I love men''s faces and their eyes, For while I wait for love to come, The slow white stars will pass by night, Girls shall come in whom love has made aware Love, that came laughing from the elder seas, And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet,


id: 6019
title: The Earth as Modified by Human Action
author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
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  experimented little on wild plants, and especially on forest trees. stated as a general rule that European forest and ornamental trees are quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood.] points, forests and water-courses."] A reason for the want of evidence Rain-water is generally absorbed by the forest-soil as fast as it falls, [Footnote: The forest-trees of the Northern States do not attain to States, [Footnote: For full catalogues of American forest-trees, and The Forest does not furnish Food for Man. In a region absolutely covered with trees, human life could not long be in the wood of the natural forest confine themselves to dead trees. Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material nearly six times as great as from a like surface of water in the other Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never


id: 6164
title: The Life of the Fields
author: Jefferies, Richard
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  air, living things are coming forth to breathe in every hawthorn bush. A great beech tree with a white mark some way up the trunk stood in the white mark looked like a ghostly figure emerging from the dark hedge brook like the grass and birds. cannot be inked in; it is like the green and blue of field and sky, of faint line of hills, a dark cloud-like bank in the extreme distance. times the bird swept round, never so much as moving his wings, till now stems of furze began to shoot, looking at a little distance like moss up ten feet high, like, sapling trees, and flowers at the top, golden like to roam about the fields and woods, and some of them travel long rush by with a sound like a flock of birds whose wings beat the air. Reading such a book is like coming to a hill


id: 10101
title: A Little Boy Lost
author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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  "Gone!" said Martin, waving his little hand around. Martin, puckering up his face for a cry, crept away to his little think that Martin came to us like that one in the dream, and that mouth wide open like a little gasping bird; and the sky looked like frightened him a little to look at their great, broad, dark faces head and long smooth body making it look like a great black snake stared at Martin with his big yellow goat''s eyes for a long time. big round head, and looking just like a cat, but a hundred times face, and said, "For oh, dear little Martin, you are lovely and Martin looked up at the sky, and said he could see no birds now that "Perhaps he''s deaf, just like that other old man," said Martin to "And do you like to be always in the sea, Old Bill?" asked Martin.


id: 11595
title: The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor
author: Anonymous
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  "I have come," said Lettice, "with the young lady''s work--I had not time "O mother, come home, for little Eddy is sick, and Lily says it is the "I knew a little boy," she said, "whose name was Arthur Scott; he lived A little boy went to sea with his father to learn to be a sailor. day, his father said to him, "Come, my boy, you will never be a sailor "What beautiful things flowers are," said one of the party of little said she, after his mother was gone, "and of good stock; that child will little boys and girls loved their mother, and were very obedient to her "I cannot go to bed to night," said the little boy, parents know about it?" "Mine do," said the lad, "but these little boys "My father," said the child, "do you love me?" "Yes," he replied, "you


id: 11304
title: The Lake
author: Moore, George
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  long, winding, mere-like lake, wooded to its shores, with hills little indignation Father Oliver began to think that public opinion After reading Father O''Grady''s letter he looked round, fearing lest long day in front of him; and he liked to think it would not end for him letter from Miss Glynn, telling me that a great chance had come her way. his thoughts, and went to his writing-table and began a long letter ''I don''t know what manner of man he is in his body,'' said Father Oliver, Father Oliver continued, like one talking to himself: ''I''m thinking that see her and write me a long letter, telling me what you think of her. The priests walked on again, and Father Oliver fell to thinking now what he was thinking that Nora Glynn had come into his life like a fountain, cart, and at this moment Father Oliver began to think that he would like


id: 11237
title: The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People
author: Anonymous
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  A little boy who had been out early in the morning playing on the lawn "O mother, come home, for little Eddy is sick, and Lily says it is the time he heard a crying of the birds, and soon the second mother came A little boy went to sea with his father to learn to be a sailor. day his father said to him, "Come, my boy, you will never be a sailor "What beautiful things flowers are," said one of the party of little said she, after his mother was gone, "and of good stock; that child "Poor little thing," said Agnes, "I wish I had something to "Little boy, will you help a poor old man up the hill with this "Because I thought I _ought_ to help the poor old man," said John. But Mrs. Savage''s little boys and girls loved their mother, and were very


id: 7055
title: Gone to Earth
author: Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
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  ''Play summat else!'' said Hazel, ''not that; I dunna like it.'' ''Foxy''d like me to get a green velvet,'' said Hazel. looking, as Hazel said, like ghosses. ''If such things come to pass, mother,'' Albert said, and his eyes looked ''Many folks be like that,'' said Hazel out of her new wisdom. ''The world wunna made in seven days only for Abel Woodus,'' said Hazel When Edward and Hazel burst into the parlour, like sunshine into an old To Edward, as he watched Hazel, they seemed like people thanking God ''Look at ''em longing after the old lady''s jam!'' said Hazel. ''My Hazel,'' Edward said, standing by the cart and looking up, ''welcome Mrs. Marston had said several times, ''I''m almost afraid Hazel is ''Edward,'' she said, ''is not what he was.'' She waited till Hazel came Edward said nothing to Hazel of Reddin''s visit.


id: 38421
title: A Little Boy Lost
author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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  "Gone!" said Martin, waving his little hand around. Martin, puckering up his face for a cry, crept away to his little room. whiteness that looked just like water, always shining and dancing before Martin held up his hot little hands to catch some of the falling drops; stopping for a few moments to look at Martin or play some pretty little the foot of the hill, or mountain, and looking up he saw it like a great big round head, and looking just like a cat, but a hundred times larger face, and said, "For oh, dear little Martin, you are lovely and sweet to Martin looked up at the sky, and said he could see no birds now that the "Perhaps he''s deaf, just like that other old man," said Martin to "And do you like to be always in the sea, Old Bill?" asked Martin.


id: 37957
title: Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
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summary:
  FOOD FOR MAN--FIRST REMOVAL OF THE WOODS--EFFECTS OF FIRE ON FOREST TREES--PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOREST--AMERICAN FOREST TREES--SPECIAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN WOODS-earth, and but a very small quantity of water runs off from the surface. of surface water into the natural channels of drainage, tend to check soils readily imbibe a great deal of water, yet the grass lands, and all river floods, and from the sea water also, when heavy or long-continued Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never waves which throw up sea sand on the beach, and deposited in deep water, of sand deposits along high-water mark.[422] If the land winds are of sand much resembling dunes are formed under water at some distance from the quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood. trees planted in proper earth, moderately watered and covered with a


id: 33178
title: The Holy Earth
author: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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  meal of plain and wholesome food, the desire to do a good day''s work and that a very distinct form of society is developing in the great farming the man next the earth shall lead a fair and simple life; for in riotous place at the use of the people a kind of education that shall quicken The question then arises whether lands and other natural resources shall morals I mean the results that arise from a right use of the earth We need the great example of persons who live separately on their lands, political life possible; the setting off of a man''s farm into fields, reader who has formed a habit of observing men on day work and public A useful contact with the earth places man not as superior to nature but we shall need, in days to come, a group or a large class of persons, who


