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This Then is Upland Pastures / Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring

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A collection of outdoor essays celebrates spring and summer through close, lyrical observation of meadows, canyons, and woodlands. The author describes wildflowers and their companions, traces plant forms and adaptations, and reflects on seasonal renewal as a source of consolation and moral clarity. Nature's patient cycles and small remedies for human carelessness appear alongside gentle criticism of anthropocentric habits. Practical pleasures such as taking rain showers replace tidy, hurried attitudes, while botanical details and folkloric names illustrate how the landscape invites readers to slow down, notice growth, and recover a feeling of gratitude.

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Title: This Then is Upland Pastures

Author: Adeline Knapp

Release date: June 4, 2021 [eBook #65511]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THIS THEN IS
Upland Pastures
 
BEING SOME OUT-DOOR
ESSAYS  DEALING  WITH
THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS
THAT  THE  SPRING  AND
SUMMER BRING 

By ADELINE KNAPP
Done into a book at the Roycroft Printing Shop in East Aurora, New York
MDCCCXCVII
Copyrighted by
The Roycroft Printing Shop
1897
OF THIS EDITION THERE WERE
PRINTED BUT SIX HUNDRED COPIES
EACH BOOK IS SIGNED AND NUMBERED:
THIS BOOK IS NUMBER 101