California and the Californians and The Alps of King-Kern DivideWhitaker-Ray Company, Incorporated, 1903 - 63 strani |
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CALIFORNIA & THE CALIFORNIANS David Starr 1851-1931 Jordan,Whitaker &. Ray Co (1899) Bkp Cu-Banc Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
California and the Californians and the Alps of King-Kern Divide David Starr Jordan Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Stran 40 - Life in California is a little fresher, a little freer, a good deal richer, in its physical aspects, and for these reasons, more intensely and characteristically American. With perhaps ninety-five per cent of identity there is five per cent of divergence, and this five per cent I have emphasized even to exaggeration. We know our friends by their slight differences in feature or expression, not by their common humanity. Much of this divergence is already fading away. Scenery and climate remain, but...
Stran 15 - California, other things being equal, are larger, stronger, and better formed than their Eastern cousins of the same age. This advantage of development lasts, unless cigarettes, late hours, or grosser forms of dissipation come in to destroy it. A wholesome, sober, out-of-door life in California invariably means a vigorous maturity. A third element of charm in California is that of personal freedom. The dominant note in the social development of the state is individualism, with all that this implies...
Stran 15 - In most regions he is seldom hot, for in the shade or after nightfall the dry air is always cool. When it rains, the air may be chilly, indoors or out, but it is never cold enough to make the remorseless base-burner a welcome alternative. The habit of roasting one's self all winter long is unknown in California. The old Californian seldom built a fire for warmth's sake. When he was cold in the house he went out of doors to get warm. The house was a place for storing food and keeping one's belongings...
Stran 40 - With all this, the social life is, in its essentials, that of the rest of the United States, for the same blood flows in the veins of those whose influence dominates it. Under all its deviations lies the old Puritan conscience, which is still the backbone of the civilization of the republic.
Stran 39 - one-lunged people" form a considerable part of the population of Southern California. It is also true that no part of our Union has a better population, and that many of these men and women are now as robust and vigorous as one could desire. But this happy change is possible only to those in the first stages of the disease. Out-of-door life and physical activity enable the system to suppress the germs of disease, but climate without activity does not cure. So far as climate is concerned, many parts...
Stran 51 - The glacial basins of the High Sierras, huge tracts of polished granite, furrowed by streams and fringed with mountain vegetation are far more impressive than similar regions in the Alps. In the Alps the glaciers are still alive and at work. In the Sierras, a few little ones are left here and there, high on the flanks of precipices, but the valleys below them, once filled with ice, are now bare, slickened and sharp-backed or clogged with moraines, just as the glaciers left them.
Stran 22 - California is emphatically one of "earth's male lands," to accept Browning's classification. The first Saxon settlers were men, and in their rude civilization women had little part. For years women in California were objects of curiosity or of chivalry, disturbing rather than cementing influences in society. Even yet California is essentially a man's state. It is common to say that public opinion does not exist there; but such a statement is not wholly correct. It does exist, but it is an out-of-door...
Stran 12 - Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished and were lost. So each year the seasons shifted; wet and warm and drear and dry; Half a year of clouds and flowers, — half a year of dust and sky.
Stran 7 - Jordan] loves his State because his State loves him, and he returns her love with a fierce affection that men of other regions are slow to understand. Hence he is impatient of outside criticism. Those who do not love California cannot understand her, and, to his mind, their shafts, however aimed, fly wide of the mark. * * * It is said in the Alps that "not all the vulgar people who come to Chamounix can ever make Chamounix vulgar.
Stran 11 - Everywhere the landscape seems to swim in crystalline ether, while over all broods the warm California sun. Here, if anywhere, life is worth living, full and rich and free. As there is from end to end of California scarcely one commonplace mile, so from one end of the year to the other there is hardly a tedious day. Two seasons only has California, but two are enough if each in its way be perfect. Some have called the climate " monotonous," but so, no doubt, is good health.