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Carregando... In Beaver Worldde Enos Abijah Mills
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Human workaholics who argue that it profits little to toil four days and take off Friday should look more closely at the beaver, which works less than half the time and enjoys long summer vacations. For Enos A. Mills, watching beavers was a lifelong preoccupation. From his arrival in Longs Peak Valley in 1884 until his death in 1922, the founder of Rocky Mountain National Park kept year-round vigil on the ponds nearby. With the kind of feeling generally reserved for more photogenic animals, Mills describes here the world of beavers, their unusual pacificism and vegetarianism, their engineering feats, their better-than-human conservation of natural resources. Mills estimates that there were as many as one hundred million beavers in North America at the beginning of the seventeenth century, just before the Hudson's Bay Company made capital of their pelts. He shows that no animal ever contributed more to civilization or was itself more civilized. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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"As animal life goes, that of the beaver stands among the best. His life is full of industry and is rich in repose. He is home-loving and avoids fighting. His lot is cast in poetic places.
The beaver has a rich birthright, though born in a windowless hut of mud. Close to the primeval place of his birth the wild folk of both woods and water meet and often mingle...Beaver grow up with the many-sided wild, playing amid the brilliant flowers and great boulders, in the piles of driftwood and among the fallen logs on he forest's mysterious edge... living with the stars in the sky and the stars in the pond...beginning serious life while the birds go by for the southland in the reflective autumn days...If Mother Nature would ever call me to live upon another planet, I could wish that I might be born a beaver, to inhabit a house in the water."
p. 15-16