Brown-bronze wood frog
Thoreau seems even more partial to frogs than to fungi, and observes them with tremendous patience and sympathy. I liked...
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...
Not long to wait, then
At last, we learn that an explanation is on the way. And the day after never isn't far off, now,...
Rainbow-like belt
Surely, I could bestow such a belt on a character in a story? And those 'brilliant-colored points or cones', garlanding...
Winter-defying hawk
What majesty in this triologism - a hawk thriving despite a New England winter.
'The warmest springs hardly allow me...
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...
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...
The liberating influence of a river
I like the idea of a river's motion and indefinite length as being liberating. But I'm pondering corresponding aspects of...
Finger-cold evening
A great way to convey a chill in the air cold enough to affect the extremities. Also like the idea...
The past as a concertina of time
I collect comments on and perceptions of time. This one is striking and I am as guilty of it as...
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...
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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