11.08.2013

day after never
#Thoreau Journal: 08-Nov-1857

When the air is thick and the sky overcast, we need not walk so far. We give our attention to nearer objects, being less distracted from them. I take occasion to explore some near wood which my walks commonly overshoot.

What a difference it makes between two ravines in other respects exactly similar that in the one there is a stream which drains it, while the other is dry!

I see nowadays in various places the scattered feathers of robins, etc., where some hawk or beast of prey has torn them to pieces.

I step over the slip-noose which some woodling has just set. How long since men set snares for partridges and rabbits?

Ah, my friends, I know you better than you think, and love you better, too. The day after never, we will have an explanation.

3 comments:

michael jameson said...

if not for food to survive! i would trip the snare! the rope tie in knots ? just to make a rabbit happy!.

Cathy said...

Would love to hear opinions about the meaning of Thoreau's last sentence.

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