earth-imbedded

Updated: July 16, 2026

There is hardly a more striking feature in the landscape nowadays than the red patches of blueberry and whortleberry bushes, as seen on a sloping hillside, like islands among the grass, with trees growing in them; or crowning the summit of a bare, brown hill with their somewhat russet liveliness; or circling round the base of an earth-imbedded rock.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.