tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76098302024-03-07T09:08:26.047+00:00The Blog of Henry David Thoreaumethinks I should hear with indifference if a trustworthy messenger were to inform me that the sun drowned himself last nightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1659125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-16480190740750770942019-11-08T15:59:00.003+00:002019-11-08T16:04:18.823+00:00Choose your HDT Day
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-28011853356068020692014-09-30T02:17:00.000+01:002014-09-30T02:17:00.573+01:00and...Thoreau's Journal: 30-Sep-1860Frost and ice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-38267496779833176452014-09-29T01:18:00.000+01:002014-09-29T01:18:00.627+01:00tired of farming...Thoreau's Journal: 29-Sep-1851Found Hosmer carting out manure from under his barn to make room for the winter. He said he was tired of farming, he was too old. Quoted Webster as saying that he had never eaten the bread of idleness for a single day, and thought that the Lord Brougham might have said as much with truth while he was in the opposition, but he did not know that he could say as much of himself. However, he did not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-89253718653596137972014-09-28T04:16:00.000+01:002014-09-28T04:16:00.080+01:00whose theme is moonlight...Thoreau's Journal: 28-Sep-1854As I complain that the voyager to arctic regions, in his description of the scenery, does not enough remind the reader directly or indirectly of the peculiar dreariness of the scene or of the perpetual twilight of the arctic night, so he whose theme is moonlight will find it hard to illustrate it with the light of the moon alone.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-24577212973681213162014-09-27T04:14:00.000+01:002014-09-27T04:14:00.778+01:00lost in the clouds...Thoreau's Journal: 27-Sep-1852From Smith’s Hill I looked toward the mountain line. Who can believe that the mountain peak which he beholds fifty miles off in the horizon, rising far and faintly blue above an intermediate range, while he stands on his trivial native hills or in the dusty highway, can be the same with which he looked up at once near at hand from a gorge in the midst of primitive woods? For a part of two days I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-35368991545019057322014-09-26T04:13:00.000+01:002014-09-26T04:13:00.505+01:00flower of autumn...Thoreau's Journal: 26-Sep-1852The increasing scarlet and yellow tints around the meadows and the river remind me of the opening of a vast flower-bud; they are the petals of its corolla, which is of the width of the valleys. It is the flower of autumn, whose expanding bud just begins to blush.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-65321178107381731152014-09-25T01:27:00.000+01:002014-09-25T01:27:00.054+01:00excited by the smell...Thoreau's Journal: 25-Sep-1851Some men are excited by the smell of burning powder, but I thought in my dream last night how much saner to be excited by the smell of new bread.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-70176047897373003272014-09-24T01:14:00.000+01:002014-09-24T01:14:00.199+01:00old ruts of thought...Thoreau's Journal: 24-Sep-1859Though you may have sauntered near to heaven’s gate, when at length you return toward the village you give up the enterprise a little, and you begin to fall into the old ruts of thought, like a roadster. Your thoughts very properly fail to report themselves to headquarters. Your thoughts turn toward night and the evening mail and become begrimed with dust, as if you were just going to put up at (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-87177441742488623012014-09-23T01:13:00.000+01:002014-09-23T01:13:00.498+01:00The telegraph harp...Thoreau's Journal: 23-Sep-1851The telegraph harp sounds strongly to-day, in the midst of the rain. I put my ears to the trees and I hear it working terribly within, and anon it swells into a clear tone, which seems to concentrate in the core of the tree, for all the sound seems to proceed from the wood. It is as if you had entered some world-famous cathedral, resounding to some vast organ. The fibres of all things have their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-52421098538190437932014-09-22T01:01:00.000+01:002014-09-22T01:01:00.170+01:00vile weeds...Thoreau's Journal: 22-Sep-1859It is remarkable what a curse seems to attach to any place which has long been inhabited by man. Vermin of various kinds abide with him. It is said that the site of Babylon is a desert where the lion and the jackal prowl. If, as here, an ancient cellar is uncovered, there springs up at once a crop of rank and noxious weeds, evidence of a certain unwholesome fertility,—by which perchance the earthUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-15209888796100896092014-09-21T02:27:00.000+01:002014-09-21T02:27:00.571+01:00Thoreau's Journal: 21-Sep-1854I sometimes seem to myself to owe all my little success, all for which men commend me, to my vices. I am perhaps more willful than others and make enormous sacrifices, even of others’ happiness, it may be, to gain my ends. It would seem even as if nothing good could be accomplished without some vice to aid in it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-36751828266530666402014-09-20T00:59:00.000+01:002014-09-20T00:59:00.071+01:00trivial affairs of men...Thoreau's Journal: 20-Sep-1851As I go through the fields, endeavoring to recover my tone and sanity and to perceive things truly and simply again, after having been perambulating the bounds of the town all week, and dealing with the most commonplace and worldly-minded men, and emphatically trivial things, I feel as I had committed suicide in a sense. I am again forcibly struck with the truth of the fable of Apollo serving Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609830.post-70717548331536622382014-09-19T00:55:00.000+01:002014-09-19T00:55:00.100+01:00the advantages of obscurity...Thoreau's Journal: 19-Sep-1854Thinking this afternoon of the prospect of my writing lectures and going abroad to read them the next winter. I realized how incomparably great the advantages of obscurity and poverty which I have enjoyed so long (and may still perhaps enjoy). I thought with what more than princely, with what poetical, leisure I had spent my years hitherto, without care or engagement, fancy-free. I have given Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1