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Sunset at Walden Pond is different every time. Tonight, from my kayak, it looked like a big flame diving down behind the trees.
A quiet woodsy morning evolves into a wake-up call. Continue reading
“Oak corn, that is ac-corn, or acorn,” (from Thoreau’s Wild Fruits) July 31. It’s 7 AM and acorns are pelting my car, which is parked in the driveway near the open window where I sit writing. A sunny summer day … Continue reading
“Language is the most perfect art in the world. The chisel of a thousand years retouches it.” Continue reading
Who said which? Match the answers below with these five quotations: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. The beginning of wisdom is awe of the One. I have always been regretting that … Continue reading
Thoreau and the ancient Jewish sages agree: Learn a few words of Hebrew. Continue reading
I recently finished reading Faith in a Seed, which collects some of Henry Thoreau‘s late nature writing that was published for the first time in 1993. The book is composed largely of one of his lesser-known essays, “The Dispersion of Seeds,” … Continue reading
“October is the month of painted leaves…” (H.D. Thoreau)
A blessing for Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading
Not only different objects are presented to our attention at different seasons of the year, but we are in a different frame of body and of mind to appreciate different objects at different seasons. I see one thing when it is cold and another when it is warm.
Journal, November 17, 1858.
I’m taking the challenge!
National Nonfiction Writing Month
Thoreau's Sukkah at Walden Pond 