Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 nov. 1999 - 211 pages How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... earth is alive - female and fecund : The earth is teeming with luxuriance , and one might almost fancy her con- scious of all the wealth of vegetable treasures she bears on her capacious breast , and which she has brought forth and ...
... eternal cyclic patterns of growth and decay , following the life cycle of a tree - how it had been " sustained " by the earth while it was alive : Never idle were those vegetable miners , always digging materials XX PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... earth to add power and substance to the tree , hour by hour building up its wonderful structure , taking and selecting only such particles as were suit- ed to increase the woody fibre and add to the particular qualities of the tree ...
... earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to - night , For thou must die . " -Herbert1 JUST such a day as holy as George Herbert describes above is this sweet May morning . But what a change since yesterday in the temperature of the ...
... earth to the throne of the glorious God who has given such beauty to His creatures to enjoy . “ Father of earth and heaven , all , all are Thine ! The boundless tribes in ocean , air and plain ; And nothing lives , and moves , and ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |