The artist cannot
be hurried – time stands still while
great art is created
September 24, 1859
The lonely horse comes
to be noticed and takes an
apple from your hand.
September 24, 1859
Suddenly withered
the rich brown button-bushes
paint the river’s brim.
I would know when in the year
to expect certain thoughts and moods,
as the sportsman knows
when to look for plover.
September 24, 1859
to expect certain thoughts and moods,
as the sportsman knows
when to look for plover.
September 24, 1859
To learn the phases
of Nature--when to expect
certain thoughts and moods
September 24, 1859
I would know when in
the year to expect
certain thoughts and moods
September 24, 1859
September 24, 2013
A red squirrel chiding you
from his concealment
in some pine-top
is the sound most native
to the locality.
September 24, 1857
Each day moods and thoughts
revolve like nature's seasons.
Expect something new.
Young men have not learned the phases of Nature; they do not know what constitutes a year, or that one year is like another. September 24, 1859
A man must attend to Nature closely for many years to know when, as well as where, to look for his objects, since he must always anticipate her a little. September 24, 1859
The perception of truth, as of the duration of time, etc., produces a pleasurable sensation. September 24 1854
I would know when in the year to expect certain thoughts and moods, as the sportsman knows when to look for plover. September 24, 1859
On Mt. Misery some very rich yellow leaves — clear yellow — of the Populus grandidentata, which still love to wag, and tremble in my hands. September 24, 1851
I seek acquaintance with Nature, —
to know her moods and manners.
March 23, 1856
Walden ("We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”)
April 18, 1852 (" For the first time I perceive this spring that the year is a circle. Can I not by expectation affect the revolutions of nature, make a day to bring forth something new? ")
April 24, 1859 ("There is a season for everything, and we do not notice a given phenomenon except at that season, if, indeed, it can be called the same phenomenon at any other season. . . . The observer of nature must improve these seasons...The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's.")
Each day moods and thoughts
revolve just as steadily
as nature's seasons.
April 24, 1859
January 5, 1860 ("A man receives only what he is ready to receive. His observations make a chain. He does not observe the phenomenon that cannot be linked with the rest which he has observed, however novel and remarkable it may be. A man tracks himself through life, apprehending only what he already half knows.”)
September 24, 2021
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September 24, 2021
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau"A book, each page written in its own season,out-of-doors, in its own locality."
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2015
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