A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Penguin, 01.12.1993 - 368 Seiten Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... walk in the fields , hills , and forests around Concord during the afternoons - often taking notes as he walked- and give the mornings to reading and to writing out , in his Journal , observations from his walks . The Journal was , to ...
... walk in the fields , hills , and forests around Concord during the afternoons - often taking notes as he walked- and give the mornings to reading and to writing out , in his Journal , observations from his walks . The Journal was , to ...
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... naturalists during 1851 was his direct experience in nature . The activity that most fully opened the natural world to him was walking , and Thoreau was a ceaseless and inspired walker ( his work as a surveyor xii INTRODUCTION.
... naturalists during 1851 was his direct experience in nature . The activity that most fully opened the natural world to him was walking , and Thoreau was a ceaseless and inspired walker ( his work as a surveyor xii INTRODUCTION.
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... Walking " was largely drafted in his Journal during 1851 , and readers will find in this volume many passages ... walks were vividly experienced , highly tactile encounters with the hills , swamps , fields , and forests surrounding ...
... Walking " was largely drafted in his Journal during 1851 , and readers will find in this volume many passages ... walks were vividly experienced , highly tactile encounters with the hills , swamps , fields , and forests surrounding ...
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... walking by night several times - I now walk by day - but I am not aware of any crowning advantage in it . I see small objects better , but it does not enlighten me any . The day is more trivial " ( 82-83 ) . Thoreau's perceptions during ...
... walking by night several times - I now walk by day - but I am not aware of any crowning advantage in it . I see small objects better , but it does not enlighten me any . The day is more trivial " ( 82-83 ) . Thoreau's perceptions during ...
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... walking companion William Ellery Channing . Thoreau's reflections on Channing's human frailties provide some of the Journal's more charming and amusing moments . Transcending gossip are Thoreau's agonized remarks in his Jour- nal ...
... walking companion William Ellery Channing . Thoreau's reflections on Channing's human frailties provide some of the Journal's more charming and amusing moments . Transcending gossip are Thoreau's agonized remarks in his Jour- nal ...
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afternoon appear apple atmosphere beautiful berries birds blossom blue bridge brook bushes button bush calyx Cicuta Maculata Clark's Island Cliffs clouds cold color Conantum Concord crickets Daniel Peck dark distance earth Fair Haven farmers feet fields flowers fruit grass green ground hear heard heaven hill horizon inches inhabitants Journal leaves light live look meadow Merrimack Rivers Methinks miles moon moonlight morning muskrat nature never night observed pasture perchance pitch pines plant Pond Prinos rain reflected reminded rising river road rocks rods root sand says season seeds seen shine shore shrub oaks side snow sound spring stems stone stream summer surface swamp sweet thick things Thoreau thought Transcendentalists traveller trees umbels Utricularia Walden Walden Pond walk warm weed whippoorwill white pines wild wind winter wood thrush woods yellow
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