Perhaps I have owed to this employment and to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance. Fishermen, hunters,... Putnam's Monthly - Страница 4441854Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Daniel G. Payne - 1996 - 204 страници
...people into the wilderness. In Walden he had written that "ff Kshermen, woodchoppers, and others . . . are often in a more favorable mood for observing her,...or poets even, who approach her with expectation" (210), but he now suggests that it is the poet, not the lumberman or tanner, who makes the truest use... | |
| David Petersen - 1997 - 354 страници
...fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected"; and that hunters, "spending their lives in the fields and woods, in...are often in a more favorable mood for observing her . . . than philosophers and poets even, who approach her with expectations. She is not afraid to exhibit... | |
| Stephen Budiansky - 1992 - 220 страници
...to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance to Nature Fisherman, hunters, wood-choppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and...or poets even, who approach her with expectation. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively,... | |
| Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 страници
...which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance. Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and...The traveller on the prairie is naturally a hunter ... He who is only a traveller learns things at secondhand and by the halves, and is poor authority.... | |
| Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 страници
...world, free from preconceptions and prior constructs. Thoreau writes: "Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and...or poets even, who approach her with expectation" (p. 211). The arc of the entire Walden experiment suggests that such fresh, embodied knowledge comes... | |
| Marc R. Fellenz - 2010 - 312 страници
...Thoreau, Walden, "Higher Laws," which also includes the following: "Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and...expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them"; and "There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the 'best... | |
| Suzanne L. Cataldi, William S. Hamrick - 2007 - 298 страници
...the hustle and bustle of human civilization and get back to nature. Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and...or poets even, who approach her with expectation. (Thoreau 1977, 457) Academics want something from nature—they are unsatisfied with just appreciating... | |
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