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Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not

Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Teacher, Regret
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Nature, Rain
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Heart, Health
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Land, Two
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.7, Princeton University Press

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Morning, Taken

Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Nature, Fate
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Weed, Work
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.113, Xist Publishing

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Rolling, Grass
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Morning, Winter
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Fire
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Fire, Land
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.227, Xist Publishing

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Today
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2189, Delphi Classics

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Summer, Morning
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Summer, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.460, 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

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Fishing
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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