What the White Race May Learn from the IndianForbes, 1908 - 269 páginas |
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animals Arizona baby BASKET beautiful believe blankets body boys called camp CHAPTER CHEMEHUEVI chest child civilization clean clothes cold Colorado Desert Colorado River compelled diet dignity disease doors enjoy evil exercise feel girls give Grand Canyon hair hand happy Havasu Creek HAVASUPAI HOPI hospitality hostess Indian indoor injury kind kiva lesson live lungs luxury mammæ mastication meal means mental mesquite mind MOHAVE mother mountain mud bath muscles mush natural Navaho never night nude nudity Oraibi out-of-door outdoor Painted Desert Paiuti physical labor physician rain refuse result ride rubbing Salton Salton Sea scalp seen simple sleep Snake Dance soul spirit stomach strength sweet things thought tion Toholwoh trees tribes vegetarians vigor walk WEAVER white race whole wild woman women words YOKUT young
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Página 234 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 271 - This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc., in compliance with copyright law. The paper is Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, which exceeds ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984.
Página 204 - Swear not at all ; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay ; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Página 262 - And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth, Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life, Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive. 0 I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot, 1 see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Página 51 - ... the rate of one every two or three minutes: some uprooted, partly on account of the loose, watersoaked condition of the ground; others broken straight across, where some weakness caused by fire had determined the spot. The gestures of the various trees made a delightful study. Young Sugar Pines, light and feathery as squirrel-tails, were bowing almost to the ground; while the grand old patriarchs, whose massive boles had been tried in a hundred storms, waved solemnly above them, their long, arching...
Página 51 - I lost no time in pushing out into the woods to enjoy it. For on such occasions Nature has always something rare to show us, and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.
Página 51 - I heard trees falling for hours at the rate of one every two or three minutes; some uprooted, partly on account of the loose, water-soaked condition of the ground; others broken straight across, where some weakness caused by fire had determined the spot. The gestures of the various trees made a delightful study. Young Sugar Pines, light and feathery as squirrel-tails, were bowing almost to the ground; while the grand old patriarchs, whose massive boles had been tried in a hundred storms, waved solemnly...
Página 53 - ... most enthusiastic greetings. We hear much nowadays concerning the universal struggle for existence, but no struggle in the common meaning of the word was manifest here; no recognition of danger by any tree; no deprecation: but rather an invincible gladness, as remote from exultation as from fear. I kept my lofty perch for hours, frequently closing my eyes to enjoy the music by itself, or to feast quietly on the delicious fragrance that was streaming past.
Página 52 - Toward midday, after a long, tingling scramble through copses of hazel and ceanothus, I gained the summit of the highest ridge in the neighborhood ; and then it occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook and get my ear close to the Aeolian music of its topmost needles.
Página 53 - Being accustomed to climb trees in making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion. The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.