02267cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000440011324500190015726400510017630000470022733600260027433700260030033800360032650000310036250801720039352011640056553400640172965300330179370000310182685600530185785600430191077055UtSlPG20260610134802.0mcr n260607r20251922utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQH1 aMack, Amy E.q(Amy Eleanor),d1876-193914aThe wilderness 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-14  aTom Trussel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"The wilderness by Amy E. Mack" is a lyrical nature essay written in the early 20th century. Set in a suburban Australian patch of reclaimed garden now overrun by native bush, it celebrates urban wildness—its plants, birds, insects, and nocturnal animals—and argues for the quiet riches of leaving small sanctuaries where nature can thrive.  The narrator lovingly traces the seasons in this bush-girt haven: fruit trees mingling with wattles, mistletoe, native cherry, and a beloved white cedar that invites birds to feast and sing. By day the place hums with life—cicadas, butterflies, dragonflies, ants, spiders—and a dazzling array of birds, from bright parrots and honeyeaters to butcher-birds, thrushes, cuckoos, and the gentle mistletoe-bird. At night bandicoots rustle, ring-tailed and big possums travel the treetops, and owls and mopokes hunt in silence, while after rain the creek swells and a comic, exuberant chorus of frogs begins. The piece closes as a quiet plea for keeping such patches wild, showing how even a small refuge in a suburb can shelter a rich, intimate world of living things. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cSydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1922  aNatural history -- Australia1 aMoore, John D.,d1888-19584 uhttps://archive.org/details/wilderness00mackiala40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77055