The Journal of a Country WomanEaton & Mains, 1912 - 112 頁 |
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第 82 頁 - The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.
第 35 頁 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
第 63 頁 - This is the gospel of labor ! ring it, ye bells of the kirk : The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-cursed soil — Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
第 91 頁 - Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord: For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
第 7 頁 - Allons ! whoever you are come travel with me ! Traveling with me you find what never tires. The earth never tires, The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first, Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd, I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
第 116 頁 - ... by regular contact with outdoor light and air and growths, farm scenes, animals, fields, trees, birds, sun-warmth, and free skies, or it will morbidly dwindle and pale. We cannot have grand races of mechanics, work people, and commonalty (the only specific purpose of America) on any less terms. I conceive of no flourishing and heroic elements of democracy in the United States, or of democracy maintaining itself at...
第 82 頁 - The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them, and quit our life of solemn trifles.
第 12 頁 - Finds while the seasons pour Their braveries at thy feet ; When the ice-rimmed rivers roar, Or summer waves their rote repeat. Let thy hushed heart take its fill Of the manifold voice of the trees, When leafless winter crowns the hill And shallow waters freeze. Let budding Spring be thine, And autumn brown and debonair, — Days that darken and nights that shine, — Let all the round years be thy fare. Let not one full hour pass Fruitless for thce, in all its varied length ; Take sweetness from...
第 8 頁 - ... is the economic principle of the standard of living. I have given special attention to only the first of these processes, which is purely sociological ; but the second, which is more specially economic, cannot be separated from it. Both are due to the general fact that rural conditions can only be appreciated through culture, while, in the present state of society, culture can only be acquired at centers of population. The modern facilities of transportation and intercommunication are giving...
第 27 頁 - All America is Niagara. Force without direction, noise •without significance, speed without accomplishment. All day and all night the water rushes and roars. I sit and listen; and it does nothing. It is Nature; and Nature has no significance.