the Thoreau Log.
26 October 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Ah! the world is too much with us, and our whole soul is stained by what it works in, like the dyer’s hand. A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread . . .

  P.M.—To Cliffs . . .

  Went through the dense maple swamp against Potter’s pasture. It is completely bare, and the ground is very thickly strewn with leaves, which conceal the wet places. But still the high blueberry bushes in the midst and on the edge retain a few bright-red or scarlet-red leaves . . .

(Journal, 5:453-457)

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