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... recognition gives , us , but recognition of the familiar in an unfamiliar context . Recognition of the old in a new circumambience breaks the trite pattern , shakes the mind out of its complacency , invites a leap into new perception ...
... recognition gives , us , but recognition of the familiar in an unfamiliar context . Recognition of the old in a new circumambience breaks the trite pattern , shakes the mind out of its complacency , invites a leap into new perception ...
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... recognition to the pleasure of reassurance . The kinglet in the fir tree , the warbler in the Atlantic spray , the thrush in the mountains have an affinity , I believe , with the recognition that lies at the heart of one's pleasure in ...
... recognition to the pleasure of reassurance . The kinglet in the fir tree , the warbler in the Atlantic spray , the thrush in the mountains have an affinity , I believe , with the recognition that lies at the heart of one's pleasure in ...
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... recognition we find in the field guides are in the nature of things far less satisfactory for hearing than for sight . Long ago W. H. Hudson wrote a shrewd essay on the futility of trying to represent bird songs by any means of ...
... recognition we find in the field guides are in the nature of things far less satisfactory for hearing than for sight . Long ago W. H. Hudson wrote a shrewd essay on the futility of trying to represent bird songs by any means of ...
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