“ I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. ”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). copy citation
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Source | Walden |
| Topic | stars sun self |
| Date | 1854 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm |
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“I have my horizon bounded by woods all to myself; a distant view of the railroad where it touches the pond on the one hand, and of the fence which skirts the woodland road on the other. But for the most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies. It is as much Asia or Africa as New England. I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. At night there was never a traveller passed my house, or knocked at my door, more than if I were the first or last man; unless it were in the spring, when at long intervals some came from the village to fish for pouts,—they plainly fished much more in the Walden Pond of their own natures, and baited their hooks with darkness,—but they soon retreated, usually with light baskets, and left «the world to darkness and to me,» and the black kernel of the night was never profaned by any human neighborhood.”
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