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This was a new kind of discovery , a new kind of knowledge . I come to the ruby - crowned kinglet . Birds belong where one finds them . The first time I heard a kinglet sing was in mid - April at the west end of Ho - nee - um Pond in ...
This was a new kind of discovery , a new kind of knowledge . I come to the ruby - crowned kinglet . Birds belong where one finds them . The first time I heard a kinglet sing was in mid - April at the west end of Ho - nee - um Pond in ...
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I had come to Oatman , as I had come several times before , for a certain kind of refreshment . It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and ...
I had come to Oatman , as I had come several times before , for a certain kind of refreshment . It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and ...
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There are kinds of fog of which this sensation is not true . ... I like it especially on Lake Mendota — not the blind , obliterating kind , but the lighter kind that softens outlines and changes perspectives , the kind in ...
There are kinds of fog of which this sensation is not true . ... I like it especially on Lake Mendota — not the blind , obliterating kind , but the lighter kind that softens outlines and changes perspectives , the kind in ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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