August 23.
P. M. – To Conantum.
Hear the mole cricket nowadays.
Collinsonia (very little left) not out
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 23, 1857
The mole cricket nowadays. See August 6, 1855 ("The mole cricket creaks along the shore."); August 22, 1856 ("The creak of the mole cricket is heard along the shore.");August 26, 1859 ("The creak of the mole cricket has a very afternoon sound");September 20, 1855 ("Tried to trace by the sound a mole cricket, —- thinking it a frog, — advancing from two sides and looking where our courses intersected, but in vain."); September 27, 1855 ("I traced the note of what I have falsely thought the Rana palustris, or cricket frog, to its true source [and] I found a mole cricket (Gryllotalpa brevipennis)."); September 27, 1856 ("The creak of the mole cricket sounds late along the shore.")
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts Last 30 Days.
-
A year is made up of a certain series and number of sensations and thoughts which have their language in nature. Henry Thoreau, June 6, 1... -
November 16 I now take notice of the green polypody on the rock. P. M. – To Nawshawtuct by boat with Sophia, up Assabet. The river still hi... -
November 13 In mid-forenoon, seventy or eighty geese, in three harrows successively smaller, flying southwest—pretty well west—over the hou...
-
November 18 About an inch of snow fell last night, but the ground was not at all frozen or prepared for it. A little greener grass and stu...
The week ahead in Henry’s journal
A journal, a book that shall contain a record of all your joy.
No comments:
Post a Comment