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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13h

I see here to-day
one brown creeper busily
inspecting pitch pines –

begins at the base,
creeps close to the bark, then darts
to another tree.

HDT ~ November 26, 1859

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13h

The chickadee's note
has a new significance
in cooler weather.

HDT ~ October 11, 1859

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 1d

The most brilliant days
in the year ushered in by
these frosty mornings.

HDT ~ October 10, 1857

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 2d

"I lie on my back with joy under its boughs.

While its leaves fall, its
blossoms spring. The autumn, then,
is indeed a spring.

I see two blackbirds
high overhead, going south,
but I am going north in my thought
with these hazel blossoms . . .

This is a part of the immortality of the soul."

Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 2d

The witch-hazel here
is in full blossom on this
magical hillside.

(All the year is a spring.)
HDT ~ October 9, 1851

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 2d

Indian summer,
a thick haze forming wreaths in
the near horizon.

HDT ~ October 11, 1856

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 3d

Milkweed seeds loosen
only when a strong wind blows –
so they carry far.

HDT ~ October 8, 1851

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 4d

Now and for a week
the chip-birds in flocks on the
withered grass and weeds.

HDT ~ October 7, 1860

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 5d

Flocks of straggling crows
fill the air like black fragments
of an explosion.

HDT ~ October 6, 1860

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 5d

A great many crows
scattered about the meadow –
black against the green.

HDT ~ October 18, 1855

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 6d

It is well to find your employment and amusement in simple and homely things.

To have the leisure
to see the parallax of
cows in a pasture. . . .

HDT ~ October 5, 1856
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A Book of the Seasons: Cows in their Pasture

I would rather watch the motions of these cows in their pasture for a day project their course carefully on a chart and report all their beh...

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 7d

Witch-hazel in prime –
Yellow leaves by their color
conceal the ﬂowers.

HDT ~ October 4, 1858
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Witch-hazel in prime – Yellow leaves by their color conceal the ﬂowers.

October 4 October 4, 2018 P. M. Paddled up the Assabet. Strong north wind, bringing down leaves. Many white and red maple, bass, elm...

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 8d

I saw in the east, just over the woods, the modest, pale, cloud-like moon, two thirds full, looking spirit-like on these daylight scenes. Such a sight excites me. The earth is worthy to inhabit. HDT ~April 30, 1852

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 8d

How all poets have idealized the farmer's life! To look down on that roof from a distance in an October evening.

No cloud is fairer
than that little bluish one
comes from his chimney.

Never reminded
of the idiot that sits
by the kitchen fire.

HDT ~ October 3, 1859

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 8d

Eighteen-inch chestnut
struck by lightning – only a
splinter left standing.

HDT ~May 23, 1858

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 8d

See sparrows in flocks
and have heard more flitting by
since the frosts began.

HDT ~October 3, 1860

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 9d

The sour scent of ferns
reminds me of the season
and of the past years.

HDT ~ October 2, 1859
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The sour scent of cinnamon ferns decaying.

a fragrance from the past almost forgotten ~ Buson October 2 . Rain in the night and cloudy this forenoon. We had all our dog-days in Sep...

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 9d

Long changed at Bangor
white pines have scarcely begun
at all to change here.

HDT ~ October 2, 1853

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The gentian in Hubbard's Close is frost-bitten

October 2 Sunday. The gentian in Hubbard's Close is frost-bitten extensively. As the witch-hazel is raised above frost and can affor...

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 10d

Now young black birches
amid the dense evergreens
are clear pale yellow.

HDT `~ October 1, 1854

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 11d

Insects in my path –
each has a special errand
in this world, this hour.

HDT ~ September 30, 1852

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 11d

Poem of the world
morning wind forever blows
uninterrupted.

HDT ~ May 30, 1853

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 12d

What astronomer
can calculate the orbit
of my thistle-down?

HDT ~ September 29, 1858
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What astronomer can calculate the orbit of my thistle-down?

September 29 Fine weather. P. M. — To White Pond. September 29, 2018 One or two myrtle-birds in their fall dress, with brown head and sho...

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 12d

Notch each nick of time
where the future meets the past –
the present moment.

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13d

As the bay-wing sang
many thousand years ago
so sang he to-night.

A brother poet,
one with the rocks and with me,
whose muse inspires mine.

HDT ~May 12, 1857

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13d

The arum berries
are still fresh and abundant –
perhaps in their prime.

HDT ~ September 28, 1856

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A Book of the Seasons: The Arum Berries

I would make a chart of our life, know why just this circle of creatures completes the world. Henry Thoreau, April 18, 1852 Dense oval bunc...

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