Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones
As a matter of fact, glowworms are not worms at all, but beetles. The female glowworms are wingless and creep about, the males fly. The common glowworm (Lampyris noctiluca) is abundant in some of the southern counties of England and is found in Scotland s
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Marcel Minnaert
Light and Color in the Outdoors Translated and Revised by Len Seymour With 223 Figures and 49 Color Plates
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Author Prof. Dr. Marcel Minnaert
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Len Seymour 16 Gorsecliff Court Boscombe Spa Road Bournemouth BH5 l AW, United Kingdom
Title of the original Dutch edition: De natuurkunde van 't vrije veld. L Licht en k1eur in het landschap © 1974: B. V. W.J. Thieme &Cie, Zutphen
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PubliClltion Data Minnaen, M. G. J. (Marcel Gilles JozeO, 1893- . Light and color in the outdoors I M. Minnaert ; translated and revised by L. Seymour. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
I SBN-13: 978-0-387-94413-5 e-I SBN-13: 978- 1-46 12-2722-9 DOL 10.10071978-1-4612-2722-9
I. Light-Popular works. 2. Color-Popular works. QC358.5 .. M56 1992 535-dc20 92-33748
I. Seymour. L.
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© 1993 Springer-Verlag New York. 1m:. Reprint of the original ed ition 1993
From Song of the Open Road
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy. free. the world before me. The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not for good-fortune. I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more. postpone no more. need nothing. Done with indoor complaints. libraries. querulous criticisms. Strong and content I travel the open road. I think heroic deeds were all conceiv' d in the open air. and all free poems also. I think I could stop here myself and do miracles. I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like. and whoever beholds me shall like me. I think whoever I see must be happy. I inhale great draughts of space. The east and west are mine. and the north and the south are mine. I am larger. better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness. Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the
earth.
Allons! whoever yo
