Idle Days in PatagoniaE.P. Dutton, 1917 - Počet stran: 249 |
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ALFRED HARTLEY ancient animals animistic appearance Argentine beautiful began bird sounds blue bright brown bush called CHAPTER civilization clouds color creatures crystal globes Damian dark delight desert desolate distance dolichotis earth exist experience experienced eyes face familiar feeling feet flower gauchos geese grass gray green ground habit hear heard horses human imagine Indians instinct light living look melody ment miles mind morning nature Neotropical ness never object odors once ostriches pampas passerine Patagonia perhaps pigment plains pleasure Rio Negro river sand savage scarcely sedge warbler seemed seen sensation shining sight smell song songsters soul sounds South South America species spot strange surface sweet tall things thorns thought tinamou tion trees tropics uplands valley vanished voice W. H. HUDSON walk white shark wild wind wood yellow
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Strana 217 - It was elation of this kind, the feeling experienced on going back to a mental condition we have outgrown, which I had in the Patagonian solitude; for I had undoubtedly gone back; and that state of intense watchfulness, or alertness rather, with suspension of the higher intellectual faculties, represented the mental state of the pure savage. He thinks little, reasons little, having a surer guide in his instinct; he is in perfect harmony with nature, and is nearly on a level, mentally, with the wild...
Strana 149 - The few sounds of birds are of that pensive or mysterious character which intensifies the feeling of solitude rather than imparts a sense of life and cheerfulness.
Strana 201 - They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory...
Strana 202 - ... for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look at these last boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations?
Strana 228 - But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike ; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself...
Strana 227 - Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Strana 210 - I had changed my identity for that of another man or animal; but at the time I was powerless to wonder at or speculate about it; the state seemed familiar rather than strange, and although accompanied by a strong feeling of elation, I did not know it— did not know that something had come between me and my intellect — until I lost it and returned to my former self — to thinking, and the old insipid existence. Such changes in us, however brief in duration they may be, and in most cases they are...
Strana 206 - Everywhere through the light, gray mold, gray as ashes and formed by the ashes of myriads of generations of dead trees, where the wind had blown on it, or the rain had washed it away, the underlying yellow sand appeared, and the old oceanpolished pebbles, dull red, and gray, and green, and yellow. On arriving at a hill, I would slowly ride to its summit, and stand there to survey THE PLAINS OF PATAGONIA WAKENING AT DAWN the prospect.
Strana 32 - Instructs the fowls of heaven ! and through their breast These arts of love diffuses ? What, but God ? Inspiring God ! who, boundless Spirit all, And unremitting Energy, pervades, Adjusts, sustains, and agitates the whole.
Strana 204 - It was my custom to go out every morning on horseback with my gun, and, followed by one dog, to ride away from the valley; and no sooner would I climb the terrace and plunge into the...