To see at a distance
Thoreau has many striking things to say about poets, and even if I can't seize on them as definitive or...
Feeding & reading: nuts vs apples
Thoreau's observation on the pitfalls of eating nuts. However, the upside, as far as I gather, is that nuts are...
Wait your turn!
This observation of a family of swallows over 150 years ago struck me, along with another surprising tale by...
Waiting for the post
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals were written in the closing years of the 18th century and the opening years of the 19th,...
A wilderness of books
This vast languishing resource was first brought home to me in Erik Reinert's How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and...
What was Nature thinking of?
Another of Thoreau's amazing fungus finds, only this one comes back to haunt him. Installed in his house it reeks...
The proper form of fairy goblets
Acorns as fairy goblets, of course. But what is this 'moss cup' that Dorothy Wordsworth considers a better goblet for...
Clapping linen
This seems to mean something like smoothing out and folding linen, though it would baffle people now.
'Mary...
Contorted as …
Never thought of caterpillars as contorted, but I like the simile. Hope you do too, and the image I used....
Studying the ways of men
So that's the secret of the fox's cunning - they hide out of sight and study us! Thoreau has dozens...
A straight-cut ditch or a meandering brook
Thoreau's comment about education will resonate today with many teachers and students, but I am glad he included the word...
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