Henry David Thoreau : Collected Essays and Poems (Library of America)
by Henry David Thoreau
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life!
-Henry David Thoreau (A Natural History of Massachusetts)
Standing quite alone, far in the forest, while the wind is shaking down snow from the trees, and leaving the only human tracks behind us, we find our reflections of a richer variety than the life of cities.
-Henry David Thoreau (A Winter Walk)
Shall we out-wear the year
In our pavilions on its dusty plain
And yet no signal hear
To strike ou...more
-Henry David Thoreau (A Natural History of Massachusetts)
Standing quite alone, far in the forest, while the wind is shaking down snow from the trees, and leaving the only human tracks behind us, we find our reflections of a richer variety than the life of cities.
-Henry David Thoreau (A Winter Walk)
Shall we out-wear the year
In our pavilions on its dusty plain
And yet no signal hear
To strike ou...more
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Read in March, 2008
the poems are not so good!
the essay on winter is marvelous crazy. i like to imagine he just walks up to me one day on the street and starts talking to me about ice.
the essay on winter is marvelous crazy. i like to imagine he just walks up to me one day on the street and starts talking to me about ice.
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