# This Then is Upland Pastures Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring

Author: Knapp, Adeline, 1860-1909

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65511

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## Summary

When the warm rains succeed winter’s driving downpours, and the young grass begins to mantle the meadows ❦ with tender green, is the time, of all the year, to be out of doors ❧ All the woodsy places are cool and dripping and dim and delicious. A month later they will be not less beautiful, perhaps, but less approachable. The things of Nature grow sophisticated as the season advances. In the early springtime they are frank and confiding, and willingly tell the secrets of their growth to him who asks ✪ They have time, in these first beginnings of things, for friendly sociability: to show their tiny roots and bulbs, and let us study the delicate, gracious unfoldings of leaf and bud and bloss...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-then-is-upland-pastures-being-some-out-door-essays-dealing-4603a6a2/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-then-is-upland-pastures-being-some-out-door-essays-dealing-4603a6a2/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-then-is-upland-pastures-being-some-out-door-essays-dealing-4603a6a2/chapters/3/index.md)