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Genre/Form: | Quotations |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
Named Person: | Henry David Thoreau; Henry David Thoreau |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry David Thoreau; Laura Dassow Walls |
ISBN: | 9780226624969 022662496X |
OCLC Number: | 1104855886 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xii, 186 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Henry David Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls. |
Abstract:
"As Laura Dassow Walls writes in her foreword, "Thoreau's notion of living in season sets the keynote for this collection. These quotes invite us to pay full attention to each moment as it passes, with all our senses, taste and touch and smell as well as sight and hearing-to attend to the phenomenology of the great cycles of growth, decay and renewal. This slender volume thus embodies, in small compass, Thoreau's own ambition to write "a book of the seasons, each page of which should be written in its own season and out-of-doors." The book provides daily glimpses into the insight, quirkiness and brilliance of Thoreau"--
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"The sage of Walden Pond is himself in the mix with The Daily Henry David Thoreau, a quote-a-day compendium from Thoreau biographer Laura Dassow Walls of some of his best observations. In a pandemic year touched by window-gazing among homebound Americans, readers might especially respond to this musing from Christmas Eve, 1841: 'Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?'" * Wall Street Journal * Read more...
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