 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from tbe mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irri gating, deluge without refreshing... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1865 - 581 pages
...springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. Eut if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1865 - 652 pages
...withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts...shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without even refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it more seared than it was... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from tlie mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...above,' to use the words of a peasant, ' helps to hasten the desolation below.' hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...above,' to use the words of a peasant, ' helps to hasten the desolation below.' hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - Geology - 1877 - 540 pages
...withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found... | |
 | Floods - 1880 - 374 pages
...lavender — where all the springs are dried up — and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1882 - 364 pages
...are dried up, and where a dead silence, unbroken even by the hum of an insect, prevails ; but when a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into ths shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in... | |
 | American Forestry Association - Forests and forestry - 1886 - 118 pages
...at most, the wanderer sees in summer here and there a withered lavender, where all the springs were dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken...overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more scarred than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have... | |
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France, one can form no conception of those parched mountain gorges where not even a bush can be found to shelter a bird, where, at most, the wanderer sees in summer here and there a withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead... 
