Waiting for the tide

July 30

This waiting for the tide is a singular feature in the life by the shore.  In leaving your boat to-day you must always have reference to what you are going to do the next day. A frequent answer is, "Well, you can't start for two hours yet." It is something new to a landsman, and at first he is not disposed to wait.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 30, 1851

July 30. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, July 30

Waiting for the tide –

the singular feature in

this life by the shore.

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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