The river ... banks were seven or eight feet high, and densely covered with white and black spruce,--which, I think, must be the c...ommonest trees thereabouts,--fir, arbor-vitæ, canoe, yellow and black birch, rock, mountain, and a few red maples, beech, black and mountain ash, the large-toothed aspen, many civil-looking elms, now imbrowned, along the stream, and at first a few hemlocks also.... The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallow, and the like. There were a few yellow lily pads still left, half-drowned, along the sides, and sometimes a white one. Many fresh tracks of moose were visible where the water was shallow, and the lily stems were freshly bitten off by them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mountain stood there to be pointed at. Pasture ran up the side a little way,... And then there was a wall of trees with trunks; After that only tops of trees, and cliffs Imperfectly concealed among the leaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion.... And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million or two of humans And never miss them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see before me now a traveling army halting, Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,... Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, "Come, m...ake gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »