item: #1 of 20
          id: 10101
      author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
       title: A Little Boy Lost
        date: None
       words: 39526
      flesch: 78
     summary: It was a desert, and they had no neighbours, but they were happy enough because they had as much land as they wanted, and the weather was always bright and beautiful; John, too, had his carpenter's tools to work with when he felt inclined; and, best of all, they had little Martin to love and think about. That's a good un, little Martin!
    keywords: away; black; blue; boy; dark; day; eyes; face; grass; green; hand; little; look; man; martin; mother; round; saw; sea; sight; sun; time; water; white
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 11237
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People
        date: None
       words: 29022
      flesch: 87
     summary: I love little children, and I think I should do for a child's nurse; I will advertise. Poor little thing, said Agnes, I wish I had something to give you.
    keywords: anna; boy; children; day; dog; father; flowers; garden; good; home; house; kind; life; little; man; morning; mother; night; poor; story; thought; time; work; years; young
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 11304
      author: Moore, George
       title: The Lake
        date: None
       words: 77110
      flesch: 79
     summary: Father Oliver knew that the time for speaking of her was passing by, but he could not bring himself to speak, and instead he tried to persuade Father O'Grady to stay to dinner, but he could not be persuaded; and they walked to and fro, talking about their different parishes, Father O'Grady asking Father Oliver questions about his school and his church. But there was an impulse in the gentle day, and, turning from the sandy spit, Father Oliver walked to and fro along the disused cart-track about the edge of the wood, asking himself if he were going home, knowing very well that he could not bring himself to interview his parishioners that morning.
    keywords: church; country; day; doubt; eliza; end; eyes; father; father gogarty; father moran; father o'grady; father oliver; father peter; glynn; god; gogarty; going; good; home; house; ireland; island; lake; letter; life; man; mind; miss; moment; moran; nora; parish; poole; priest; road; saying; story; things; thinking; thought; time; tinnick; trees; way; woman; wood; writing; years
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        item: #4 of 20
          id: 11595
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor
        date: None
       words: 27829
      flesch: 86
     summary: I love little children, and I think I should do for a child's nurse; I will advertise. Good children will play together, without getting angry, and it is a pretty sight to see such children all happy in each other's society, and enjoying their pleasant pastimes, with cheerful and happy hearts.
    keywords: anna; boy; children; day; dear; father; flowers; garden; god; good; home; house; kind; lettice; little; man; morning; mother; night; poor; thought; time; work; years; young
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        item: #5 of 20
          id: 13814
      author: Biese, Alfred
       title: The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
        date: None
       words: 117181
      flesch: 71
     summary: Of the treatment of Nature in La Fontaine's Fables, he says: 'Ce n'est pas peindre la Nature, c'est l'abolir'; and draws this conclusion: 'Le sentiment de l'infini est absent de la poésie du dix-septième siècle aussi bien que le sentiment de la Nature'; and again: 'L'esprit général du dix-huitième siècle est la négation même de la poésie ... l'amour de la Nature n'était guerre autre chose qu'une haine déguisée et une déclaration de guerre a la société et a la réligion. In the courtly epics of chivalry, the place of real Nature was taken by a fabulous wonderworld, full of the most fantastic and romantic scenery, in which wood, field, plants, and animals were all distorted.
    keywords: air; alps; beauty; birds; blue; book; century; classic; clear; clouds; comp; country; culture; dark; day; days; deep; delight; der; descriptions; die; doth; earth; evening; eyes; fair; feeling; fields; fine; flowers; footnote; forest; form; garden; german; god; goethe; golden; good; grass; great; green; hand; heart; heaven; high; hills; human; influence; joy; la nature; lake; landscape; leaves; lies; life; literature; little; love; man; melancholy; men; middle; mind; moon; morning; mountains; nature; near; new; night; o'er; ocean; painting; passion; people; period; place; plants; pleasure; poem; poetry; poets; power; rain; renaissance; river; rocks; romantic; rose; round; rousseau; scenery; sea; shade; shew; sky; snow; solitude; song; soul; spirit; spring; stars; storm; streams; summer; sun; sweet; sympathy; taste; thee; things; thou; thought; time; trees; view; von; water; waves; way; white; wild; wind; winter; wood; words; work; world
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        item: #6 of 20
          id: 14108
      author: Burroughs, John
       title: In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
        date: None
       words: 59463
      flesch: 77
     summary: Though the nest is not especially an artistic work,--requiring strength rather than skill,--yet the eggs and the young of few other birds are so completely housed from the elements, or protected from their natural enemies, the jays, crows, hawks, and owls. Fourthly, a limited number that make no nest of their own, but appropriate the abandoned nests of other birds.
    keywords: bird; black; branch; cold; country; day; days; deep; dog; eye; farm; feet; female; fox; good; gray; ground; half; hand; head; high; house; left; life; look; man; miles; morning; mountain; nature; near; nest; new; night; place; point; red; rock; saw; snow; song; stone; stream; time; tree; trout; valley; water; way; white; winter; woods; work; young
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        item: #7 of 20
          id: 22420
      author: Holbrook, Florence
       title: The Book of Nature Myths
        date: None
       words: 34514
      flesch: 96
     summary: Little bird, it said, where are you going? Indeed, I do not know, answered the bird sadly. I say, 'Little birds, come back,' and in a moment they are back again and singing their sweetest songs to me.
    keywords: away; bird; children; day; earth; fire; good; great; home; king; man; mountain; water
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        item: #8 of 20
          id: 27951
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: Policeman Bluejay
        date: None
       words: 30021
      flesch: 87
     summary: And I am told that after this day the rooks, who are not rightly forest birds, betook themselves to the nearest villages and farm houses, and contented themselves with plaguing mankind, who could not revenge themselves as easily as the birds did. These smaller birds all sat in rows on the limbs beside Twinkle and Chubbins; but seated upon the stouter limbs facing them were rows of bigger birds who made the child-larks nervous by the sharp glances from their round, bright eyes.
    keywords: birds; bluejay; children; chubbins; eagle; eyes; forest; girl; good; head; king; larks; nest; paradise; policeman; time; tree; twinkle; water; way; wings
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        item: #9 of 20
          id: 28552
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
        date: None
       words: 29819
      flesch: 89
     summary: Chapter VIII Jim Crow Has Time to Repent His Sins WHERE are you going, my dear? asked the Blue Jay of his wife. Why don't you set a trap for it? asked Twinkle's mother.
    keywords: birds; chapter; children; chubbins; crow; day; eyes; girl; good; jim; king; mister; mrs; stone; sugar; time; turtle; twinkle; water; way; woodchuck
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        item: #10 of 20
          id: 29433
      author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
       title: Nature
        date: None
       words: 15431
      flesch: 74
     summary: Whole Floras, all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts; but the most trivial of these facts, the habit of a plant, the organs, or work, or noise of an insect, applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy, or, in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner. In like manner, what good heed, nature forms in us!
    keywords: beauty; day; god; life; light; man; men; mind; nature; new; objects; power; reason; soul; spirit; sun; things; thought; time; truth; use; world
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        item: #11 of 20
          id: 30800
      author: Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
       title: Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
        date: None
       words: 16524
      flesch: 95
     summary: For many days and nights he bravely took care of his father and kept the fire burning. When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone.
    keywords: day; earth; fire; flowers; home; illustration; king; people; persephone; time; trees; white; work; zeus
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        item: #12 of 20
          id: 31167
      author: Ewald, Carl
       title: The Old Willow Tree, and Other Stories
        date: None
       words: 35791
      flesch: 96
     summary: 5 The years passed and the beeches kept on growing and gradually became slim young trees that reached right up among the old oak's branches. He snapped right down at his roots; the stump was dug up; and it left a very ugly gap in the middle of the long row of trees.
    keywords: branches; bush; cousin; day; forester; good; hole; illustration; leaves; look; mouse; oak; right; time; tree; willow; wind; wood
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        item: #13 of 20
          id: 33178
      author: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
       title: The Holy Earth
        date: None
       words: 37763
      flesch: 66
     summary: With care and with regard for other men, we must produce the food and the other supplies in regularity and sufficiency; and we must clean up after our work, that the earth may not be depleted, scarred, or repulsive. There are other men who would take the last nugget and destroy the last bole.
    keywords: contact; country; course; day; earth; farmer; farming; forest; form; good; human; land; life; live; man; materials; means; men; nature; new; obligation; people; persons; place; present; products; public; resources; responsibility; results; sea; society; things; time; use; way; work
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        item: #14 of 20
          id: 37957
      author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
       title: Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
        date: None
       words: 236097
      flesch: 57
     summary: Antonio Ponz (_Viage de España_, i, prólogo, p. lxiii), says: Nor would this be so great an evil, were not some of them declaimers against _trees_, thereby proclaiming themselves, in some sort, enemies of the works of God, who gave us the leafy abode of Paradise to dwell in, where we should be even now sojourning, but for the first sin, which expelled us from it. But the subject is so exceedingly complex and difficult, that it is safer to regard it as a historical problem, or at least as what lawyers call a mixed question of law and fact, than to attempt to decide it upon _à priori_ grounds.
    keywords: 8vo; acres; action; air; alps; american; animals; area; artificial; atmosphere; banks; basin; bed; birds; cases; cause; century; changes; channel; character; climate; coast; condition; countries; country; course; cubic; cultivation; current; cut; deposits; depth; der; des; desert; destruction; dikes; distance; doubt; dunes; earth; effects; egypt; england; english; europe; european; evaporation; extent; fact; fall; feet; fields; fish; floods; flow; forest; forest trees; form; formation; france; general; geographical; ground; growth; half; heat; height; human; importance; increase; influence; insects; inundations; irrigation; italy; lake; land; large; leaves; level; life; man; material; matter; means; miles; modern; moisture; mountains; nature; near; new; nile; north; northern; note; number; observation; page; parts; period; physical; pine; plains; plants; point; population; power; precipitation; present; produce; proportion; quantity; question; rain; river; rock; roots; sand; sea; small; snow; soil; southern; species; springs; square; states; streams; subject; summer; supply; surface; temperature; timber; time; torrents; trees; united; use; valley; value; vegetable; vegetation; water; wild; wind; winter; woods; works; years; young
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        item: #15 of 20
          id: 38421
      author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
       title: A Little Boy Lost
        date: None
       words: 40186
      flesch: 78
     summary: It was a desert, and they had no neighbours, but they were happy enough because they had as much land as they wanted, and the weather was always bright and beautiful; John, too, had his carpenter's tools to work with when he felt inclined; and, best of all, they had little Martin to love and think about. No escape was possible for poor little Martin so long as it was dark, and there he had to stay all night, but morning brought him comfort; for now he could see the reed-stems that hemmed him in all round, and by using his hands to bend them from him on either side he could push through them.
    keywords: away; birds; black; blue; boy; dark; day; eyes; face; grass; green; hand; look; man; martin; mother; round; saw; sea; sight; sun; time; water; white
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        item: #16 of 20
          id: 5177
      author: Burroughs, John
       title: Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
        date: None
       words: 61081
      flesch: 74
     summary: It does not seem possible for any man to become just what Emerson is from the stump, though perhaps great men have been the fruit of one generation; but there is a quality in him, an aroma of fine manners, a propriety, a chivalry in the blood, that dates back, and has been refined and transmitted many times. The bird seems to be aware that his color betrays him, for there are few birds in the woods so careful about keeping themselves screened from view.
    keywords: air; april; beauty; bird; boy; country; cow; day; days; doubt; earth; emerson; eye; face; fact; fields; form; good; grass; ground; head; heart; home; kind; lark; leaves; life; literature; look; love; man; men; mind; nature; near; new; night; note; place; poems; poet; poetry; point; power; quality; saw; science; season; shakespeare; snow; song; sparrow; spirit; spring; sun; things; thought; thy; time; trees; voice; water; way; white; whitman; wild; winter; woods; world
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 596
      author: Teasdale, Sara
       title: Rivers to the Sea
        date: None
       words: 11949
      flesch: 85
     summary: Old love, old love, How can I be true? But there is one more strong, Love, that came laughing from the elder seas, The Cyprian, the mother of the world; She gave me love who only asked for death-- I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes And in my own too sorrowful a fire.
    keywords: earth; eyes; heart; joy; love; night; sea; sky; song; soul; spring; stars; white; wind
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 6019
      author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
       title: The Earth as Modified by Human Action
        date: None
       words: 265273
      flesch: 53
     summary: The forest trees, too, are of southern type, umbrella pines, various species of evergreen oaks, and many other trees and shrubs of persistent broad-leaved foliage, characterizing the landscape. The currents of the Mississippi, the Rhone, and of many other large rivers, are modified in the same way.
    keywords: 8vo; acres; action; air; american; ancient; animals; annual; area; artificial; atmosphere; banks; basin; bed; beds; birds; cases; century; change; channel; character; climate; coast; conditions; countries; country; course; cultivation; current; cut; day; degrees; deposits; depth; der; des; desert; destruction; dikes; discharge; distance; doubt; dunes; earth; effects; egypt; england; europe; european; evaporation; extent; fact; fall; feet; fields; fish; floods; flow; footnote; force; forest; forest trees; form; formation; france; general; geographical; ground; growth; half; heat; height; human; importance; inches; increase; influence; insects; inundations; irrigation; italy; lake; land; large; leaves; level; life; man; material; matter; means; miles; modern; moisture; mountains; nature; near; new; nile; north; northern; number; observations; open; operations; paris; period; physical; pine; plains; plants; point; population; power; precipitation; present; produce; proportion; protection; purpose; quantity; question; rain; regions; report; river; rock; roots; sand; sea; small; snow; soil; southern; species; springs; states; strata; streams; subject; summer; superficial; supply; surface; temperature; timber; time; torrents; trees; united; use; valley; value; vegetable; vegetation; volume; water; wild; wind; winter; woods; works; yards; years; young
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 6164
      author: Jefferies, Richard
       title: The Life of the Fields
        date: None
       words: 74541
      flesch: 77
     summary: Blackbirds whistle all around, the woods are full of them; willow-wrens plaintively sing in the trees; other birds call--the dry wind mingles their notes. Other birds sit, and hope to escape by remaining still, till they detect the tremor coming direct towards them, when they rise.
    keywords: air; birds; black; blue; books; brook; brown; colour; country; dark; day; days; distance; earth; eyes; feet; field; fish; flowers; grass; green; half; hand; hedge; hills; leaves; left; life; light; london; look; man; men; mind; moment; oak; open; people; place; red; round; sea; shadow; shot; sky; spring; summer; sun; surface; things; thought; time; trees; trout; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; wood; years; yellow
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 7055
      author: Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
       title: Gone to Earth
        date: None
       words: 84333
      flesch: 92
     summary: Before long Hazel brought out the bird-cage and hung it in the sun. We wondered where you were, Hazel Marston!'
    keywords: abel; air; black; coming; dark; day; dear; door; dress; dunna; ed'ard; edward; eyes; face; father; foxy; god; good; green; half; hand; hazel; head; home; house; james; life; like; long; look; looking; love; man; marston; martha; mind; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; night; place; quiet; reddin; room; round; saw; tea; things; thought; time; tree; undern; vessons; voice; way; white; woman; world
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