Walden

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My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,
which, however, I did not promise to do.
Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition
shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, "Think of it!
He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,
and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers."
from the Journal (March 28, 1853) ~ Thoreau

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THE PONDS

The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach the grandeur, nor can it much concern one who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore, yet this pond is so remarkable for its depth and purity as as to merit a particular description. It is clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation. The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and third of a mile. They are exclusively woodland. All our Concord waters have two colors at least; one when viewed at distance, and another, more proper, close at hand. ` Page 159 "Walden" ~ Henry David Thoreau

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