Intimate and familiar
A striking idea, that in being true, a book will feel intimate and familiar to all men. Â 'True' surely means...
Bright-tinted shrubs
Autumn alights with bright-tinted shrubs. And yes, you need to be on the alert to perceive their full beauty.
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Nature like an athlete
How wonderful to portray nature beefing herself up to wrestle with winter, stripping off all superfluity such as leaves, the...
Towing a sinking ship with a canoe
A clear portrayal of something being unequal to the task, Thoreau uses this maritime metaphor to describe words which strike...
Contorted as …
Never thought of caterpillars as contorted, but I like the simile. Hope you do too, and the image I used....
Sign of the clime
A ready way to reckon with the weather, according to an old boy Thoreau knew. Can't really go wrong with...
Of the unspoken
A short and thoughtful statement. He doesn't elaborate and it is hard to know what drew him to this conclusion. ...
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.
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A voice like …
I don't think I've ever heard such a voice, unless it's one or two smokers I know after a bad...
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...
Thoughts as shells
The thoughts of poets likened to two types of shell, those that come from the depths and those that are...
Writing time and speeding clocks
Any absorbing activity has this magical effect of taking you almost outside of time, until you look at the clock...
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