The internal heat and life of the globe, anon to burst forth anew

January 23

January 23, 2015

It is surprising how much work will be accomplished in such a night as the last, so many a brook will have run itself out and now be found reduced within reasonable bounds. This settling away of the water leaves much crackling white ice in the roads.

The river is higher than ever, especially the North River. I am obliged after crossing Hunt’s Bridge to keep on round to the railroad bridge at Loring’s before I can recross, it being over the road with a roar like a mill dam this side the further stone bridge, and I could not get over dry. 

I do not quite like to see so much bare ground in midwinter. 

The radical leaves of the shepherd’s-purse, seen in green circles on the water-washed plowed grounds, remind me of the internal heat and life of the globe, anon to burst forth anew.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 23, 1855

I do not quite like to see so much bare ground in midwinter. See January 23, 1858 ("The ground has been bare since the 11th . . .The sun, and cockcrowing, bare ground, etc., etc., remind me of March."); January 23, 1859 ("The earth being generally bare ")

The radical leaves of the shepherd’s-purse . . . anon to burst forth anew. See January 7, 1855 ("The delicious soft, spring-suggesting air, how it fills my veins with life ! . . . On the slopes the ground is laid bare and radical leaves revealed, crowfoot, shepherd's-purse, clover, etc., a fresh green, and, in the meadow, the skunk-cabbage buds, with a bluish bloom, and the red leaves of the meadow saxifrage; and these and the many withered plants laid bare remind me of spring."); April 25, 1855 ("Shepherd's - purse will bloom to-day, the first I have noticed which has sprung from the ground this season, or of an age.")

The internal heat and life of the globe. See January 23, 1854 ("The increased length of the days is very observable of late."); See also January 25, 1853 ("In winter, after middle, we are interested in what is springlike. The earth and sun appear to have approached some degrees."). and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Signs of the Spring and The Days have grown Sensibly Longer

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

The internal heat 

and life of the globe, anon 

to burst forth anew.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, The internal heat and life of the globe

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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