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| June 1,, 2017 |
The year has many seasons more than are recognized in the almanac.
There is that time about the first of June, the beginning of summer, when the buttercups blossom in the now luxuriant grass and I am first reminded of mowing and of the dairy.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, 1850
The year has many seasons more than are recognized in the almanac See
May 23, 1841 ("All nature is a new impression every instant")
; June 11, 1851 ("No one, to my knowledge, has observed the minute differences in the seasons.");
December 5, 1856 ("I love best to have each thing in its season only")
June 6, 1857 ("Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought. Each annual phenomenon is a reminiscence and prompting");
October 26, 1857 ("My moods are thus periodical, not two days in my year alike.")
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 first of June, the beginning of summer, when the buttercups blossom in the now luxuriant grass. See April 25, 1859 ("I got to-day and yesterday the first decided impression of greenness beginning to prevail, summer-like. . . .It reminds you of the time, not far off, when you will see the dark shadows of the trees there and buttercups spotting the grass.");
May 15, 1853 ("Yellow is the color of spring; red, of midsummer. Through pale golden and green we arrive at the yellow of the buttercup; through scarlet, to the fiery July red, the red lily.");
May 23, 1853 ("And buttercups and silvery cinquefoil, and the first apple blossoms, and waving grass beginning to be tinged with sorrel, introduce us to a different season . . .At first we had the lighter, paler spring yellows of willows, dandelion, cinquefoil, then the darker and deeper yellow of the buttercup; and then this broad distinction between the buttercup and the senecio, as the seasons revolve toward July.");
May 27, 1853 ("A new season has commenced - summer - leafy June . . . The buttercups in the church-yard and on some hillsides are now looking more glossy and bright than ever after the rain.");
May 28, 1851 ("The buttercups spot the churchyard.");
May 30, 1857 ("Buttercups thickly spot the churchyard.");
June 2, 1852 (“Buttercups now spot the churchyard.”);
June 6, 1857 ("This is June, the month of grass and leaves.”) ; .
June 8, 1850 ("Not till June can the grass be said to be waving in the fields. When the frogs dream, and the grass waves, and the buttercups toss their heads, and the heat disposes to bathe in the ponds and streams then is summer begun") and note to
May 27, 1855 (“The fields now begin to wear the aspect of June, their grass just beginning to wave.”)
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