the Thoreau Log.
12 November 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed down to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? . . .

  8 P.M.—Up river to Hubbard Bathing-Place.

  Moon nearly full. A mild, almost summer evening after a very warm day, alternately clear and overcast. The meadows, with perhaps a little mist on than, look as if covered with frost in the moonlight . . .

(Journal, 5:496-500)

Lincoln, Mass. and Waltham, Mass. Thoreau surveys a woodlot for the heirs of John Richardson (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 10; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

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