 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
 | John J. McAleer - 1971 - 194 Seiten
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 | David Miller - 1989 - 368 Seiten
...We think first of the passage in Walden in which Thoreau contemplates the call of the hooting owl: "It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates. ..." It suggests to him "a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized." Owls, he says,... | |
 | John K. Terres - 1991 - 328 Seiten
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