 | 1915 - 738 strani
...and swamps, and mercilessly attack the traveller by day and night. " In these forests the multitudes of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey upon...for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics" (p. 141). Another terror was the small piranhas or cannibal fishes that infest most of the rivers in... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1915 - 460 strani
...reasonable, and he succeeds unusually well. He epitomizes thus the whole matter for the upper Paraguay: "In these forests the multitude of insects that bite,...accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief." The writer of this review, who has had much personal acquaintance with these pests, is of the opinion that... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 strani
...from the devourer. As Colonel Roosevelt says in "A Hunter-Naturalist in the Brazilian Wilderness," "In these Forests the multitude of insects that bite,...often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, pass belief. The very pathetic myth of 'Beneficent nature' could not deceive even the least wise being... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 strani
...Brazilian wilderness," tells us in the straightforward manner for which all respect him, that : — " In these forests the multitude of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey on other creatures, often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief. The very pathetic... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 strani
...respect him, that : — " In these forests the multitude of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey on other creatures, often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief. The very pathetic myths of ' beneficent Nature ' could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 strani
...Brazilian wilderness," tells us in the straightforward manner for which all respect him, that : — " In these forests the multitude of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey on other creatures, often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief. The very pathetic... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 strani
...Brazilian wilderness," tells us in the straightforward manner for which all respect him, that : — " In these forests the multitude of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey on other creatures, often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief. The very pathetic... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1914 - 846 strani
...too; and we went at a rate that a moment previously I would have deemed impossible over such ground. In these forests the multitude of insects that bite,...often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, pass belief. The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least and entirely... | |
 | Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 strani
...maribundi wasps, and the effects of the "loathsome berni flies" on man and animal, TR concludes that In these forests the multitude of insects that bite,...nature' could not deceive even the least wise being if he-once saw for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics. Of course 'nature' — in common parlance... | |
 | Candace Slater - 2001 - 392 strani
...wilderness could be both beautiful and fragile. This same wilderness, however, had a more violent side. "The very pathetic myth of 'beneficent nature' could...himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics," the ex-US president declared. "Entirely indifferent to good or evil," this nature "works out her ends... | |
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