Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easily ...born; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled... trophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the min...d. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woods were as fresh and full of vegetable life as a lichen in wet weather, and contained many interesting plants; but unless t...hey are of white pine, they are treated with as little respect here as a mildew, and in the other case they are only the more quickly cut down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are very proper forest houses, the stems of the trees collected together and piled up around a man to keep out wind and rain,...--made of living green logs, hanging with moss and lichen, and with the curls and fringes of the yellow birch bark, and dripping with resin, fresh and moist, and redolent of swampy odors, with that sort of vigor and perennialness even about them that toadstools suggest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »