At the Edge of the Sea By Rachel Carson The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and se a there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense of continuing creation and...
Lake of Autumn I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in meausre down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be ha...
TO see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean, to walk upon the green earth , and to be a lord of a thousand creatures to look down giddy precipices or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread out under one's finger in a...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height to My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of 1)Being and 2)ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everydays Most quiet need, by sun and ca...
Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former. Why have not I the riches, the rank, the power, of such and such, is the common...
Several years ago, Iris Arc Crystal, a company I co-founded with Francesca Patruno, experienced a 1)lull in business. We had recently hired several new employees and hoped that the 2)slowdown was only temporary. However, in the meantime, we had work...
Lift An American visiting England walked into a hotel lobby and pushed a button for elevator service．The lift will be down presently，said a nearby clerk． The lift？said the American．Oh，you mean the elevator． No，I mean the lift，replie...
My parents owned six books between them. Two of those were Bibles and the third was a concordance to the Old and New Testaments. The fourth was The House At Pooh Corner. The fifth，The Chatterbox Annual 1923 and the sixth, Malorys Morte dArtliur. I...
Rachel Carson was a scientist and a bird watcher. She noticed, in the late '50s, the gradual disappearance of some birds, and linked it to our use of 1)pesticides. She wrote a book about her fear that 2)robins would sing no more in future spring time...
These are my jeans After going on a diet，a woman felt really good about herself－－especially when she was able to fit into a pair of jeans she had outgrown long ago．Look，look． she shouted while running downstairs to show her husband．I ca...
She Walks in Beauty She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies； And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes； Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies． One shade...
We are reading the first 1)verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are 2)infinite... I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a 3)reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the myster...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ---by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here, To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer, To stop wit...
Im always here to love you I am always here to understand you I am always here to laugh with you I am always here to cry with you I am always here to talk with you I am always here to plan with you Even though we might not always be together Please k...
Catch of a Lifetime He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his familys 1)cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day before the 2)bass season 3)opened, he and his father were fishing early i...
