The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold... like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trees appeared in groups and singly, revolving coolly and blandly, displaying the latest fashions. The blue dampness of a ravine. ...A memory of love, disguised as a meadow. Wispy clouds--the greyhounds of heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes,... Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law-- Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still farther on we scrambled up the rocky channel of a brook, which had long served nature for a sluice there, leaping like it fr...om rock to rock, through tangled woods, at the bottom of a ravine, which grew darker and darker, and more and more hoarse the murmurs of the stream, until we reached the ruins of a mill, where now the ivy grew, and the trout glanced through the crumbling flume; and there we imagined what had been the dreams and speculations of some early settler. But the waning day compelled us to embark once more, and redeem this wasted time with long and vigorous sweeps over the rippling stream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was, perhaps, even a more grand and desolate place for a night's lodging than the summit would have been, being in the neighbor...hood of those wild trees, and of the torrent. Some more ærial and finer-spirited winds rushed and roared through the ravine all night, from time to time arousing our fire, and dispersing the embers about. It was as if we lay in the very nest of a young whirlwind. At midnight, one of my bed-fellows, being startled in his dreams by the sudden blazing up to its top of a fir tree, whose green boughs were dried by the heat, sprang up, with a cry, from his bed, thinking the world on fire, and drew the whole camp after him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Setting out on our return to the river, still at an early hour in the day, we decided to follow the course of the torrent.... This... ravine had been the scene of an extraordinary freshet in the spring, accompanied by a slide from the mountain.... At one place we were startled by seeing, on a little sandy shelf by the side of the stream, the fresh print of a man's foot, and for a moment realized how Robinson Crusoe felt in a similar case; but at last we remembered that we had struck this stream on our way up, though we could not have told where, and one had descended into the ravine for a drink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolate region. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt abou...t two years before. It was covered with charred trunks, either prostrate or standing, which crocked our clothes and hands, and we could not easily have distinguished a bear there by his color. Great shells of trees, sometimes unburnt without, or burnt on one side only, but black within, stood twenty or forty feet high. The fire had run up inside, as in a chimney, leaving the sap-wood. Sometimes we crossed a rocky ravine fifty feet wide, on a fallen trunk; and there were great fields of fire-weed (Epilobium angustifolium) on all sides, the most extensive that I ever saw, which presented great masses of pink. Intermixed with these were blueberry and raspberry bushes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »