Humboldt has written an interesting chapter on the primitive forest, but no one has yet described for me the difference between th...at wild forest which once occupied our oldest townships, and the tame one which I find there to-day. It is a difference which would be worth attending to. The civilized man not only clears the land permanently to a great extent, and cultivates open fields, but he tames and cultivates to a certain extent the forest itself. By his mere presence, almost, he changes the nature of the trees as no other creature does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, an...d the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I sit looking out of a window of the building I wish I did not have to write the instructional manual on the uses... of a new metal. I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace, And envy them--they are so far away from me! Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on scheduleLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and its crumbling, leafy terraces.... There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue. There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting fliesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O the cunning wiles that creep In thy little heart asleep!... When thy little heart doth wake, Then the dreadful night shall break.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »