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A Year in the Fields, Paperback / softback Book

A Year in the Fields Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A Year in the Fields is a nature appreciation text by John Burrooughs that features this passage: The preparations of a snow-storm are, as a rule, gentle and quiet; a marked hush pervades both the earth and the sky.

The movements of the celestial forces are muffled, as if the snow already paved the way of their coming.

There is no uproar, no clashing of arms, no blowing of wind trumpets.

These soft, feathery, exquisite crystals are formed as if in the silence and privacy of the inner cloud-chambers.

Rude winds would break the spell and mar the process.

The clouds are smoother, and slower in their movements, with less definite outlines than those which bring rain.

In fact, everything is prophetic of the gentle and noiseless meteor that is approaching, and of the stillness that is to succeed it, when "all the batteries of sound are spiked," as Lowell says, and "we see the movements of life as a deaf man sees it,--a mere wraith of the clamorous existence that inflicts itself on our ears when the ground is bare."

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