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- Author: John Burroughs
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 98
- ISBN-10: 1514318911
- ISBN-13: 9781514318911
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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I suspect that in this volume my reader will feel that I have given him a stone when he asked for bread, and his feeling in this respect will need no apology. I fear there is more of the matter of hard science and of scientific speculation in this collection than of spiritual and aesthetic nutriment; but I do hope the volume is not entirely destitute of the latter. If I have not in some degree succeeded in transmuting my rocks into a kind of wholesome literary bread, or, to vary the figure, in turning them into a soil in which some green thing or flower of human interest and emotion may take root and grow, then, indeed, have I come short of the end I had in view.
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- Author: John Burroughs
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 98
- ISBN-10: 1514318911
- ISBN-13: 9781514318911
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
I suspect that in this volume my reader will feel that I have given him a stone when he asked for bread, and his feeling in this respect will need no apology. I fear there is more of the matter of hard science and of scientific speculation in this collection than of spiritual and aesthetic nutriment; but I do hope the volume is not entirely destitute of the latter. If I have not in some degree succeeded in transmuting my rocks into a kind of wholesome literary bread, or, to vary the figure, in turning them into a soil in which some green thing or flower of human interest and emotion may take root and grow, then, indeed, have I come short of the end I had in view.
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