“Little, however, is to be learned in confused, hurried tourist trips, spending only a poor noisy hour in a branded grove with a guide. You should go looking and listening alone on long walks through the wild forests and groves in all the seasons of the year. In the spring the winds are balmy and sweet…. In summer the days go by in almost constant brightness…. In the autumn the sighing of the winds is softer than ever…. Winter comes suddenly, arrayed in storms.”
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 9: The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks
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"Bamboo Grove" (竹里馆), as translated by Arthur Sze in The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (2013), p. 19
Variant translation:
Lying alone in this dark bamboo grove,
Playing on a flute, continually whistling,
In this dark wood where no one comes,
The bright moon comes to shine on me.
"In a Bamboo Grove" in The White Pony, ed. Robert Payne, p. 151
I stood tip-toe upon a little Hill; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 526.
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Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), Wild Peaches
