I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no service. The birds I heard, which fortunately did not . come within the scope of my science, sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation... The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Página 55de Henry David Thoreau - 1893Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 182 páginas
...and he struggled to cast off his experience and to look at Nature with innocent eyes until the birds "sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning...stretching through many a Carolina and Mexico of the soul.^)lf he had not succeeded occasionally, this divine aspiration might have been the pose of a fool.... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 380 páginas
...have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. March 4 I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...fortunately did not . come within the scope of my science, sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation, and had for background to their song... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 376 páginas
...have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. March 4 I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...fortunately did not come within the scope of my science, sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation, and had for background to their song... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 382 páginas
...have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. March 4 I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...service. The birds I heard, which fortunately did not O come within the scope of my science, sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation,... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...he announces smugly, "I learned today that my ornithology had done me no service — "; the birds he heard, "which fortunately did not come within the scope of my science," sang as freshly as the morning of creation, with all the untrodden wilderness "of the soul" for background (1:115; 3/4/40).... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...cumbersome tools that would retard his poetic ascent. In March 1840, for example, he announces smugly, "I learned today that my ornithology had done me no service—"; the birds he heard, "which fortunately did not come within the scope of my science," sang as freshly as the morning... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 202 páginas
...he balances himself for an hour over the yellow floor of his basin. 14 February 1840, Journal 1:109 I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...fortunately did not come within the scope of my science — sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation, and had for background to their... | |
| Alfred I. Tauber - 2001 - 346 páginas
...upon which to lean to present some semblance of reality. He records this early lesson in his Journal: I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...fortunately did not come within the scope of my science- sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation, and had for background to their song... | |
| Frances Ilmberger, Alan Robinson - 2002 - 244 páginas
...establishment of an analogical relation to the world of spirit, as exemplified by such statements: I learned to-day that my ornithology had done me no...fortunately did not come within the scope of my science - sung as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation, and had for background to their... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 páginas
...progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." — Gandhi "The birds I heard today, which did not come within the scope of my science, sang...as if it had been the first morning of creation." — "The blue-bird carries the sky on his back." — Thoreau "When a man wants to murder a tiger he... | |
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