Thoreau's World:

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Nauset Beach, Cape Cod

I wished to see the seashore...where the ocean is
land-lord as well as sea-lord ......

Dunes at Nauset Beach, Cape Cod

At length we entered what had appeared at a distance an upland marsh,
but proved to be dry sand covered with beach grass . . .

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Nauset Beach, Cape Cod

The white breakers were rushing to the shore; the foam ran up the sand,
and then ran back as far as we could see.

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First Encounter Beach, Cape Cod

Next commenced the region of vegetation -
a succession of small hills and valleys covered with shrubbery . . .

But the ocean was the grand fact there ...

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Nauset Beach, Cape Cod

We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult....

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First Encounter Beach, Cape Cod

Having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.

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* Photos on this page were taken by Amy Belding Brown in Massachusetts.
All quotations are from the works of Henry David Thoreau.
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