 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
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...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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