the Thoreau Log.
6 May 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To epigæa via Clamshell Hill.

  There is no such thing as pure, objective observation. Your observation, to be interesting, i.e. to be significant, must be subjective. The sum of what the writer of whatever class has to report is simply some human experience, whether he be poet or philosopher or man of science. The man of most science is the man most alive . . .

(Journal, 236-240)

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