Flowers advance as
steadily as a clock. Nature
loses no moment.
Hum of honey-bees
attracted by the flower
of the skunk cabbage
April 6, 1853
A still warmer day
than yesterday — a warm, moist
rain-smelling west wind
white maples resound
with the hum of honey-bees
like a summer dream.
they know where
to look for the white maple
and when.
April 6, 1854
Vegetation comes
not by a steady progress
but by fits and starts.
April 6, 1860
See a plate of the Colias Philodice, or common sulphur-yellow butterfly, male and female of different tinge. April 6, 1857
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2016
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
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