The length of the days

January 23

Love tends to purify and sublime itself. It mortifies and triumphs over the flesh, and the bond of its union is holiness. 

January 23, 2015

The increased length of the days is very observable of late. What is a winter unless you have risen and gone abroad frequently before sunrise and by starlight?

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 23, 1854

The increased length of the days. See January 3, 1854 ("The twilight appears to linger. The day seems suddenly longer."); January 7, 1853 ("I perceive  the increased length of the day on returning from my afternoon walk. Can it be? The sun sets only about five minutes later, and the day is about ten minutes longer."); January 20, 1852 ("The days are now sensibly longer, and half past five is as light as five was.") January 24, 1852 ("The sun sets about five.”); January 25, 1855 ("For a week or two the days have been sensibly longer, and it is quite light now when the five-o’clock train comes in.)

Rise and go abroad before sunrise and by starlight.  See November 13, 1857 ("See the sun rise or set if possible each day."); December 20, 1851 ("Go out before sunrise or stay out till sunset."); January 20, 1852 ("To see the sun rise or go down every day would preserve us sane forever.”)

January 23. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  January 23 

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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