The Strange Adventures of a Pebble

I've been through fire and water, _I_ tell you! From my earliest pebblehood the wildest things you could imagine have been happening to this world of ours, and I have been right...

Up rose the wild old Winter King And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young harebell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the Sea."

And that's how the Old Men of the Mountain visited us in the Ice Age and what they did and how they did it. But now that they have all been back home so long don't you think it...

What is still more interesting, the sea at the same time is emptying into the rivers; for the waters of all the lands and the waters of all the seas, are one, and what the river...

What a wonderful world it is, this world of green fields and perfume and blossoms of pink and gold! Where did it come from? How did it get here out of the white winter? That ble...

It has been said[17] that crystals are dreaming of life, they act so like living things. We may imagine the crystals in the granite rocks which first came into being with the co...

They flung them over to Roxbury Hills; They flung them over the plain; And all over Milton and Dorchester too Great lumps from the pudding the giants threw. They tumbled about l...

August is usually such a hot, dry month that it ought to be a good time for talking of deserts. We can realize better what a desert is and what an interesting region it must be...

If we really had spent the month of August in a desert what a relief it would be to find ourselves, as we do now at the very beginning of the golden autumn time, in the lands of...

Nothing looks more aimless, more unorganized, perhaps, than the long turmoil of the waves of the sea which begins in late autumn and continues through the winter months. If, wit...

Speaking of the sea still being in the Stone Age what do you know about the kind of tools man used in the Stone Age and how he got along?[51]

It is a noble thing for men ... to make the face of a wall look infinite, and its edge against the sky like an horizon; or even if less than this be reached, it is still delight...

"A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jelly fish and a saurian And caves where the cavemen dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty And a face turned from the clod-- S...