Published 1880 AS far as the eye can reach, the snow lies in a deep mantle over the cheerless landscape. I look out upon a dreary moor, where the horizon melts into the cold gray of a heavy sky. The restless wind sweeps with pitiless blast through shivering trees and over bleak hills, from whose crests,…
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The Story of The Floundering Beetle by William Hamilton Gibson – Illustrated Nature Journal
Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things Wm Hamilton Gibson PUBLISHED 1899 The Story of The Floundering Beetle AMONG my somewhat numerous correspondence from young people, I recall several wondering inquiries about a certain fat, floundering “beetle,” as “blue as indigo”; and when we consider how many other observing youngsters, including youngsters of…
Winter and Footprints in the Snow – by William Hamilton Gibson
IT seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. . . . He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich…