The Outlook to NatureMacmillan, 1905 - 296 Seiten |
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64-66 FIFTH AVENUE affairs agricultural animals and plants attitude believe bittern botanists botany building chiefly child civilization COMPANY 64-66 FIFTH Cornell University countryman course creation culture direct dogma earth effort environment EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION evolution philosophies evolutionist express fact farm boy farmer fields Fragaria garden garden strawberry grow high school Horticulture human hypothesis idea ideals illustrations industrial interest Jasper county kind knowledge L. H. BAILEY labor literature lives look MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 means ment method mind native natural environment nature-study objects occupation open country out-of-doors outlook to nature perhaps persons point of view problems progress pupils realm religion rience rise rural school schoolhouse special creation species spirit strawberry subjects taught teach teachers theory things tion tive touch training-class trees truth Walt Whitman weather wind youth
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Seite 223 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Seite 92 - TO one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment ? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye...
Seite 11 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer...
Seite 265 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Seite 54 - That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee ? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned ? 4 I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
Seite 37 - WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to...
Seite 37 - WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
Seite 266 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Seite 189 - I teach The earth and soil To them that toil, The hill and fen To common men That live just here; The plants that grow, The winds that blow, The streams that run In rain and sun Throughout the year; The shop and mart, The craft and art, The men to-day, The part they play In humble sphere; And then I lead Thro' wood and mead By bench and rod Out unto God With love and cheer.