The Mountain And The Guide
excerpt the shotguns in their slip covers, awaken from the sleepiness of the road smiling in anticipation at the show of the imminent hunt looking for strong sensations imagining the report of the rifle the bunch of metallic shots as an attribute of their being as an energy
Dragonflies
Many dragonflies so gracefulWing in summer air fine,Wearing their tiny stays,Bringing back our hope so peacefulGraciously on their wings ashine: Summer days, my dragonflies. Transformation everywhere,Poetry and many twinkles,And below the solar praise:Fresh the delta, rosy
Romanian Zoologists
by Gheorghe Brătescu; Klaus Fabritius
Butterfly Collections From Transylvania
see also Gallery The Lepidoptera Collection from Transylvania and the Dr. Daniel Czekelius Palearctic Lepidoptera Collection The collections contain macro- and microlepidoptera from Transylvania numbering 7,162 specimens, as well as a number of 6,929 palearctic species.
The Ladybird
see image excerpt (Lat. Coccinella semipunctata ) From the beginning of spring till the end of autumn, one can see everywhere, but mostly in the orchards, a tiny insect, flying or walking here and there, whose body is round and convex, the legs are short and the forewings
Restrictions In The Retezat National Park
Rhododendron on Bucura lakeshore by Cristina LazaroniRestrictions have their place in a national parkMany people know why there are restrictions in a national park and agree with them. I have received various questions from tourists wanting to know why, in the Retezat National
Images, Legends, Symbols
by Victor Simion
Pseudo-Kynegetikos
excerpt I was a boy around thirteen when I first learned how to wield a rifle – though I confess that, ever since, I have made no progress in this craft, quite the contrary, I dare say! I had accompanied my old man to Whitepond Baths, that had seen the cream of the crop
Xylobiont Coleopterans
Can forests of the Carpathians be a reference point for the virgin forests of the Central Europe? The proof for this is represented by xylobiont Coleopterans Over recent years many German experts specialising in forestry have visited forests in Romania and Ukraine. On these
Death Of A Deer
The drought had killed any pale of windThe sun had melted, the dust stayed skinned. What was ere left was a parched sky a-flood. From shafts lean buckets are welling out mud. Over the forests, increasingly – fires, fires,Are dancing in savage, satanical spires. I take
About Simion Florea Marian's "Insects..."
A valuable folklore study published over a hundred years ago: Simion Florea Marian, Insects in the Romanian language, faith and customs (see Chapters Zoological Portraits and A Folk Bestiary) In 1903 a unique book was published, written by Simion Florea Marian (1847-1907),
The Butterflies
Butterflies are the souls of infants That will never be born. They have no parents, yet I see themTheir progenitors have never been bornSo that they could come into the world. And here they are, although it can't beFor there is no reason for their descentYet they fly