The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: the clear sap...Thoreau's Journal: 23-Feb-1857

2.23.2014

the clear sap
...Thoreau's Journal: 23-Feb-1857

I have seen the signs of spring. I have seen a frog swiftly sinking in a pool, or where he dimpled the surface as he leapt in. I have seen the brilliant spotted tortoises stirring at the bottom of the ditches. I have seen the clear sap trickling from the red maple.

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michael jameson said...: I AM ALIVE!! you must take notice of the world around you! you are part of it and have the same rights as is it ,do not ignore it! do not pass through it as if it is not there! it is your own harmony!, allow it to be the gift you are giving each other!. michael jameson oldantiqueguy@hotmail.com; Feb 28, 2010, 4:56:00 PM
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one of the native forces

“Thoreau was a surprising fellow—he is not easily grasped—is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces—stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protesters: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me. Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force—he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame.”

~Walt Whitman as recorded by Horace Traubel

the simple print

The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

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