i found this book recently at the Community thrift.
"Wonders of Nature" : as seen and described by famous writers (up until 1900)
complied together by Esther Singleton. published 1900
a world before your parents, their parent's & their parent's parents
before twitter twatter, video chat, e-mail, spa resorts, microwaves, freeways.... untainted.
Can you imagine what the writer is describing below?
The Big Tress of California:
"at last we entered the true forest-belt, and anything more beautiful you cannot conceive. We forgot our bumps and bruises in sheer delight. Oh the loveliness of those pines and cedars, living or dead! For the dead trees are draped with the most exquisite golden-green lichen...
I can compare it to nothing but gleams of sunshine in the dark forest"
..." The whole air is scented with the breath of the forest- the aromatic fragrance of resin and of dried cones and pine-needles baked by the hot sun, and the atmosphere is clear and crystalline "
C.F. Gordon- Cumming
what would these writers say now if they saw the state these places are currently in?
"Wonders of Nature" : as seen and described by famous writers (up until 1900)
complied together by Esther Singleton. published 1900
a world before your parents, their parent's & their parent's parents
before twitter twatter, video chat, e-mail, spa resorts, microwaves, freeways.... untainted.
Can you imagine what the writer is describing below?
The Big Tress of California:
"at last we entered the true forest-belt, and anything more beautiful you cannot conceive. We forgot our bumps and bruises in sheer delight. Oh the loveliness of those pines and cedars, living or dead! For the dead trees are draped with the most exquisite golden-green lichen...
I can compare it to nothing but gleams of sunshine in the dark forest"
..." The whole air is scented with the breath of the forest- the aromatic fragrance of resin and of dried cones and pine-needles baked by the hot sun, and the atmosphere is clear and crystalline "
C.F. Gordon- Cumming
what would these writers say now if they saw the state these places are currently in?
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