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\n\t I have tried by story and sketch and suggestion to catch the spirit of the beautiful winter season.<\/strong> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\t<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn this volume it is the large, free, strong, fierce, wild soul of Winter which I would catch, the bitter boreal might that, out of doors, drives all before it; that challenges all that is wild and fierce and strong and free and large within us, till the bounding red blood belts us like an equator, and the glow of all the tropics blooms upon our faces and down into the inmost of our beings.<\/strong><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tWinter within us means vitality and purpose and throbbing life; and without us in our fields and woods it means widened prospect, the storm of battle, the holiness of peace, the poetry of silence and darkness and emptiness and death.<\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAnd I have tried throughout this volume to show that Winter is only a symbol, that death is only an appearance, that life is everywhere, and that everywhere life dominates even while it lies buried under the winding-sheet of the snow. <\/font> \n\tWhy, this at least, \n\tBut first of all, and always, I have tried here to be a naturalist and nature-lover, pointing out the sounds and sights, the things to do, the places to visit, the how and why, that the children may know the wild life of winter, and through that knowledge come to love winter for its own sake. <\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAnd they will love it. Winter seems to have been made especially for children.<\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe sight of a snowstorm affects a child as the smell of catnip affects a cat. He wants to roll over and over and over in it. And he should roll in it; the snow is his element as it is a polar bear cub’s. <\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tI love the winter, and so do all children—its bare fields, empty woods, flattened meadows, its ranging landscapes, its stirless silences, its tumult of storms, its crystal nights with stars new cut in the glittering sky, its challenge, defiance, and mighty wrath.<\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tI love its wild life—its birds and animals; the shifts they make to conquer death. And then, out of this winter watching, I love the gentleness that comes, the sympathy, the understanding!<\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOne gets very close to the heart of Nature through such understanding.<\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tDallas Lore Sharp.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThis delightful family 89 page PDF ebook comes with Master Resell Rights.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOnly $1.00<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font> I have tried by story and sketch and suggestion to catch the spirit of the beautiful winter season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","edd-categories":[48],"edd-tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","download","type-download","status-publish","hentry","download_category-animals-nature","edd-download","edd-download-cat-animals-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4956,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/1737\/revisions\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-categories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"download_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-tags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t"A simple child, <\/font>
\n\tThat lightly draws its breath, <\/font>
\n\tWhat should it know of death?" <\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tthat the winter world is not dead;
\n\tthat the cold is powerless to destroy; that life flees and hides and sleeps, only to waken again,
\n\tforever stronger than death—
\n\tfresher, fairer, sweeter for its long winter rest. <\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n
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