The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base....... In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he's off for another foray of adventure and exploration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the oth...er luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads ov...er a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wilderness experiences a suddent rise of all her streams and lakes. She feels ten thousand vermin gnawing at the base of her n...oblest trees. Many combining drag them off, jarring over the roots of the survivors, and tumble them into the nearest stream, till, the fairest having fallen, they scamper off to ransack some new wilderness, and all is still again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the t...ime would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Medusa, come, we'll turn him into stone," they shouted all together glaring down, "how wrong we were to let off Theseus lightly!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »