the Thoreau Log.
4 November 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Autumnal dandelion and yarrow.

  Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. Let a man have thought what he will of Nature in the, house, she will still be novel outdoors . . .

  My thought is a part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.

(Journal, 4:409-410)

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