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Gothic windows, very high in the great old building. When the leaves were out there were no roofs or walls within sight, and the room was so high that, seated at my window, I was almost on a level with the uppermost large branches of a vast spreading elm, which stood right over against me and dominated all the other trees in the thickly-wooded gardens. When one was by the farther wall of the room the moving green caves and promontories of the great tree filled the whole space of the window ;but leaning on the sill one saw it framed in sky with copses and walks stretching away behind it. I spent many hours watching that tree when, as often happened, I was feeling too indolent for other occupations. In bleak winter twilights, when its extended branches rose in dark austerity amid the cold and wet, or toughly struggled with a fierce wind, I saw it a self-reliant Titan, a vegetable Prometheus, a dumb and vigilant spirit without hope and without fear as the tempests swelled and the menacing darkness came round. When spring thrust away winter, and the clustered crocuses, yellow, purple, and mauve, shone in the grass about its foot, faint de Kcate veils spread over its branches, veils of buds which presently broke forth into leaves. In summer it was a great palace for birds.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book is an assemblage of essays and stories about the author's early experiences with the natural world. Beginning with childhood memories and evocations of the landscape and wildlife, the author explores larger themes of introspection and the significance of those early experiences in shaping his adult perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. A lover and observer of nature, the author writes with great lyrical beauty, insight, and melancholy on the power of memory, on the fragility of the landscape, and most of all on the imprint made on his consciousness by the natural world, which he sees as the wellspring of his artistic and emotional self. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781331373827_0
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