Wrong by a jugful
A charming way to say that someone is seriously wrong - not right by a jugful. I will try to...
Five for the price of one
Thoreau packs in a rich deck of similes and metaphors in this short description of the shrub oak. For the...
The thoughts of a pig
A wonderfully involved tail of a pig's escape and eventual recapture.
Firstly, a protracted endeavour to find him, eventually discovered...
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...
Benign in his bowels
Don't worry, this is just a metaphor for people who are cloyingly, invasively kind and try to absorb you into...
Slate-color water
Our capacity to name colours in all their rich and detailed variegations is surprisingly limited, and so the recourse to...
As insensible as …
Of course, we can't know (yet) how insensible a fungus is, but until we learn otherwise, what a memorable way...
Ebbs and flows of the soul
A journal as a beach gathering shells, seaweed and pearls washed up by the soul in the course of a...
Wild-looking grass
One of the landscape changes of recent years is the steady return of wild-looking grass where previously there were endless,...
Don’t try this trick at home
What a joy to read this sentence; there is no limit to the detail and originality of Thoreau's observations.
'A...
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...
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