 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
 | Michel Granger - 1991 - 260 Seiten
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 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 Seiten
...there is a representational meaning in the hooting of owls: I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.65 Thoreau actually saw and felt the world this way, and did not merely adopt a stylized rhetorical... | |
 | Leonard Lutwack - 1994 - 316 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
 | Michael West - 2000 - 552 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
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