But when I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here, — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverene, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., — I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and. as it were, emasculated... The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Página 216de Henry David Thoreau - 1893Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Henry David Thoreau - 1881 - 334 páginas
...the conjuror's trick of filling a hat with feathers, for when you have rubbed off but a thimble full, and can close and conceal the wound completely, the...nor think of the moose with a lesser forest on his bead in the one, nor of the beaver in the other ? When I think what were the various sounds and notes,... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 páginas
...were, emasculated country. Would not the motions of those larger and wilder animals have been more 10 significant still ? Is it not a maimed and imperfect...think of the moose with a lesser forest on his head in 15 the one, nor of the beaver in the other ? When I think what were the various sounds and notes, the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1978 - 148 páginas
...exterminated here, — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverene, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., — I cannot but feel as if I...that had lost all its warriors. Do not the forest and meadow now lack expression, now that I never see nor think of the moose with a lesser forest on his... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...wolverene [sic], wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc.,—" all exterminated here; "Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with?" He listens "to [a] concert in which so many parts are wanting," reads a poem to find "that my ancestors... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...wolverene [sic], wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., — " all exterminated here; "Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with?" He listens "to [a] concert in which so many parts are wanting," reads a poem to find "that my ancestors... | |
| Rick Bass - 1997 - 211 páginas
...exterminated here — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkev— I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and, as...tribe of Indians that had lost all its warriors." — Thoreau, March 1856 ioumal LOOK WHAT I'VE DONE. Invited from my clearcut-riddled home to read in... | |
| James Wilson - 1998 - 500 páginas
...complained: '. . . I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country. Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with?' The implication here is plain: like the latelamented 'cougar, panther, lynx, wolverene, wolf, bear,... | |
| W. G. Ernst - 2000 - 592 páginas
...Pond in 1856, mourned the loss of wolves, mountain lions, and the "charismatic megafauna," asking: "Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with?" In northern California, two hundred years ago, tule elk, pronghorn antelope, and grizzly bears roamed... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 180 páginas
...exterminated here, — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverene, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., — I cannot but feel as if I...expression, now that I never see nor think of the moose w1th the lesser forest on his head in the one. nor of the beaver in the other? When I think what were... | |
| Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 páginas
...exterminated here. ... I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country. . . . Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with? . . . This my life in nature ... is lamentably incomplete. . . . Primitive Nature is the most interesting... | |
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