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The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Squirrels, Firsts
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Firsts
Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Dawn, Firsts
Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, June, Weather
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.182, Graphic Arts Books

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Memorable, Winter
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Exercise, Sauntering
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Dust, Sound
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.273, e-artnow

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Spring, Years
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.56, Delphi Classics

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau
Trust, Spring, Rivers
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.16

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Patience, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Country, Spring

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Spring, Institutions
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Men, Confusion
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Children, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Blow, Length
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Sweet, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1093, e-artnow

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Fans, May
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1949, Delphi Classics

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Years, Sparrows
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Morning, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Ice, Fishing
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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