Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents Based on the Cornell Nature-study Leaflets, with Much Additional Material and Many New Illustrations |
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Qualis spelunca subito commota Columba , Cui domus , et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi , Fertul in arva volans , plausumque exterrita pennis Dat tecto ingentem , mox aere lapsa quieto , Radit iter liquidum , celeres neque commovet alas ...
Qualis spelunca subito commota Columba , Cui domus , et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi , Fertul in arva volans , plausumque exterrita pennis Dat tecto ingentem , mox aere lapsa quieto , Radit iter liquidum , celeres neque commovet alas ...
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I have not read this entire book, however, what I have seen has been very thorough and does not draw conclusions where they are not warranted (such as the origin of the plants and animals).
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animal anthers appear apple base beak beautiful become begin bird blossom body bottom branches brown build called carry caterpillar close color comes common covered creature dark Describe developed edges eggs eyes fall feathers feed feet field fins fish five flight flower front fruit give green ground grow habits head hind hold insects interesting keep kind later Leading leaf leaves legs LESSON live look mother mouth move nature nectar nest never observation pair petals Photo plant pollen protect pupa pupils robin roots seeds seen shape short side sing soil song soon species spring stand stem stickleback stigma strong surface swallow tail Teacher's Story tree tube upper usually wild wings winter wood yellow young
Popular passages
Page 515 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 491 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 850 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 493 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things.
Page 48 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 778 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 777 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Page 683 - O fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune, Our chair a broad pumpkin, — our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach with two rats for her team!
Page 837 - cretaceous epoch," not one of the present great physical features of the globe was in existence. Our great mountain ranges, Pyrenees, Alps, Himalayas, Andes, have all been upheaved since the chalk was deposited, and the cretaceous sea flowed over the sites of Sinai and Ararat. All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements...
Page 913 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents Based on the Cornell Nature-study Leaflets, with Much Additional Material and Many New Illustrations |
| Author | Anna Botsford Comstock |
| Edition | 10 |
| Publisher | Comstock Publishing Company, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 938 pages |
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