Thoreau's World:

A Window On New England

Now I yearn for one of those old,
meandering, dry, uninhabited roads ...
--- Journal, July 21, 1851

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I hear Barrett's sawmill running by night to improve the high water....
---Journal, May 5, 1852

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The true poet will ever live aloof from society ....
--- Journal, May 11, 1854

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If these fields and streams and woods .....
should cease to interest and inspire me ....
--- Journal, March 11, 1856

What a noble work is plowing,
with the broad and solid earth for material ...
--- Journal, March 28, 1857

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How rarely a man's love for nature becomes a ruling principle
with him, like a youth's affection for a maiden ...
--- Journal, April 23, 1857

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Each phase of nature, while not invisible,
is yet not too distinct and obtrusive.
--- Journal, Nov. 8, 1858

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Give me the old familiar walk, post-office and all ...
--- Journal, Nov. 1, 1858

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I am amused to see from my window here how busily
man has divided and staked off his domain.
---Journal, Feb. 20, 1842

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A river touching the back of a town is like a wing ....
--- Thoreau, Journal, July 2, 1858

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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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Thoreau's World: Cape Cod Page

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Amy Belding Brown - New England Perspectives

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