The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... field with a mind unoccupied . He was not full of evolution when he walked out , or variation , or devolution , or degeneration . He did not look for microbes everywhere . His mind was free and his eye open . To many it would do much ...
... field with a mind unoccupied . He was not full of evolution when he walked out , or variation , or devolution , or degeneration . He did not look for microbes everywhere . His mind was free and his eye open . To many it would do much ...
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... field gradually grows full of living things . In the hedges un- suspected birds come to the surface of the green leaf to take breath . Over the pond brilliantly coloured insects float to and fro , and the fish that never seem to move ...
... field gradually grows full of living things . In the hedges un- suspected birds come to the surface of the green leaf to take breath . Over the pond brilliantly coloured insects float to and fro , and the fish that never seem to move ...
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... fields and hedges remain to us more peaceful now than ever . Perhaps the Naturalist's Calendar is that part of the book that will be found most valuable to those who take up this study . The dates are not the same every year of course ...
... fields and hedges remain to us more peaceful now than ever . Perhaps the Naturalist's Calendar is that part of the book that will be found most valuable to those who take up this study . The dates are not the same every year of course ...
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... fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... fields ; and after floods , and in frosts , exhibit very grotesque and wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ; and especially when those ...
... fields ; and after floods , and in frosts , exhibit very grotesque and wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ; and especially when those ...
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