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Page vii
... familiar essay , " have nearly all something to do with nature . But they are less accounts of things seen in it than reflections induced by the experience of seeing them . If they are for anybody but the author , they are hardly for ...
... familiar essay , " have nearly all something to do with nature . But they are less accounts of things seen in it than reflections induced by the experience of seeing them . If they are for anybody but the author , they are hardly for ...
Page 38
... familiar song , heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the ground- breaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of ...
... familiar song , heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the ground- breaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of ...
Page 97
... familiar context to an unfamiliar one jolts us into awareness , compels us to focus on the particulars of our sur- roundings , both old and new . It forces us , that is , to take things apart , but also invites us to put them together ...
... familiar context to an unfamiliar one jolts us into awareness , compels us to focus on the particulars of our sur- roundings , both old and new . It forces us , that is , to take things apart , but also invites us to put them together ...
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