Under Emerson Cliff

September 26

P . M . — Round Walden and Pleasant Meadow.

Small oaks in hollows (as under Emerson Cliff) have fairly begun to change.

Acorns have fallen after the rain and wind, just as leaves and fruit.

The taller grass and sedge, now withered and brown, reveals the little pines in it.

I see, just up, the large light-orange toad-stools with white spots --

at first:

then:

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 26, 1860

September 26. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, September 26

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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