An Almanac for ModernsAn Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to “appeal to the ordinary lover of nature . . . but the turn of Peattie’s mind is poetic and speculative.” The New York Times calls this book “a fine and subtle perception . . . rising at times to an intense lyric beauty . . . a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return.” |
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algæ animals ants APRIL Aristotle aroid Asa Gray astronomers Audubon AUGUST autumn bacteria bank swallows beauty bees beetles birds blue bobolinks born butterflies cell cicadas cold color creatures dark Darwin death earth eggs evolution eyes FEBRUARY feel female ferns fields flowers forest frog fungi fungus Gilbert White grackles grass gray green hear hour insects instinct JANUARY JULY JUNE Lamarck larvæ leaf leaves lichens life’s light Linnæus living look males man’s MARCH marsh mate mechanists moths natural selection naturalist Nature nest never night OCTOBER orchid plants poet pollen pond protoplasm Rafinesque rain seed seems SEPTEMBER sing sleep smell snow song sound species spring stars summer sunlight swallows sweet things THIRTYFIRST tree tropical tropism turn TWENTYEIGHTH TWENTYFIFTH TWENTYFIRST TWENTYFOURTH TWENTYSECOND TWENTYSEVENTH TWENTYTHIRD vitalists wild wings winter wood frog woods yellow zoölogist