... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a little ...music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend o...n it ... that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the distinguished writers of that period [the Renaissance] possess a greater vigor and naturalness than the more modern,--for ...it is allowed to slander our own time,--and when we read a quotation from one of them in the midst of a modern author, we seem to have come suddenly upon a greener ground, a greater depth and strength of soil. It is as if a green bough were laid across the page, and we are refreshed as by the sight of fresh grass in midwinter or early spring. You have constantly the warrant of life and experience in what you read. The little that is said is eked out by implication of the much that was done. The sentences are verdurous and blooming as evergreen and flowers, because they are rooted in fact and experience, but our false and florid sentences have only the tints of flowers without their sap or roots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to us that no traveler has ever explored them, and notwithstanding the wonders which science is elsewhere revealing every... day, who would not like to hear their annals? Our humble villages in the plain are their contribution. We borrow from the forest the boards which shelter and the sticks which warm us. How important is their evergreen to the winter, that portion of the summer which does not fade, the permanent year, the unwithered grass! Thus simply, and with little expense of altitude, is the surface of the earth diversified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light...,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a country full of evergreen trees, of mossy silver birches and watery maples,... a country diversified with innumerable lake...s and rapid streams, peopled with trout ... salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes; the forest resounding at rare intervals with the note of the chickadee, the blue jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the fish hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams; at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of wolves; in summer, swarming with myriads of black flies and mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they ...would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The evergreen woods had a decidedly sweet and bracing fragrance; the air was a sort of diet-drink, and we walked on buoyantly in I...ndian file, stretching our legs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After this rough walking in the dark woods it was an agreeable change to glide down the rapid river in the canoe once more.... It ...was very exhilarating, and the perfection of traveling, quite unlike floating on our dead Concord River, the coasting down this inclined mirror, which was now and then gently winding, down a mountain, indeed, between two evergreen forests, edged with lofty dead white pines, sometimes slanted half-way over the stream, and destined soon to bridge it. I saw some monsters there, nearly destitute of branches, and scarcely diminishing in diameter for eighty or ninety feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We also saw and heard several times the red squirrel.... This, according to the Indian, is the only squirrel found in those woods,... except a very few striped ones. It must have a solitary time in that dark evergreen forest, where there is so little life, seventy-five miles from a road as we had come. I wondered how he could call any particular tree there his home; and yet he would run up the stem of one out of the myriads, as if it were an old road to him. How can a hawk ever find him there? I fancied that he must be glad to see us, though he did seem to chide us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »