I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent... Walden - Seite 196von Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 Seiten
...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. .Ml day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, 2 where the double spruce stands hung... | |
| Henry David Thoreau, Citadel Press - 1967 - 132 Seiten
...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal... | |
| Joseph Zitt - 2001 - 428 Seiten
...only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, 9. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; 176 but now a more... | |
| Paul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till - 2001 - 500 Seiten
...and berries ripe for feeding partridges. Swamps are also home to owls, whose ghostly calls suggest "a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." 51 Thoreau's interest in "undeveloped nature" stemmed from a lifelong fascination with wilderness,... | |
| Paul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till - 2001 - 504 Seiten
...and berries ripe for feeding partridges. Swamps are also home to owls, whose ghostly calls suggest "a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not...stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have."51 During his career he wrote about New England lakes, forests, and mountains not just to convey... | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson - 2007 - 562 Seiten
...It was like taking a pressure off the brain. Thoreau said, "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." Oooooooop! And the gibbon chorus at dawn? It represented joy. It was saying /'tti alire. Bert still... | |
| Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2007 - 351 Seiten
...account and bring out its complexity. "I rejoice that there are owls," he states in Walden. "Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...undeveloped nature which men have not recognized." The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer.... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 544 Seiten
...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 Seiten
...burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' He rejoices in the hootings of owls : 'It is a' sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognised. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.' By art and... | |
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