Photo: October 7, 2008 at Dinsmore Pond, Sandwich, New Hampshire
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All fair action in man is the product of enthusiasm –– There is enthusiasm in the sunset. The shell on the shore takes new layers and new tints from year to year with such rapture as the bard writes his poem. There is a thrill in the spring, when it buds and blossoms––there is happiness in the summer––a contentedness in the autumn––a patient repose in the winter.
Nature does nothing in the prose mood, though sometimes grimly with poetic fury, as in earthquakes &c and at other times humorously.The revolution of the seasons is a great and steady flow…a graceful, peaceful motion,like the swell on lakes and seas.What is sacrificed to time is lost to eternity.
September 29, 1840
La naturaleza no hace nada al modo prosaico, aunque a veces lo haga con furia poética tristemente, como en los terremotos y otras veces con humor.La revolución de las estaciones es un gran y constante flujo...un movimiento pacífico y grácil, como las ondas sobre los lagos y mares. Lo que se sacrifica al tiempo se pierde para la eternidad.
(traducción Guillermo Ruiz)
It is well to find your employment and amusement in simple and homely things. These wear best and yield most. I think I would rather watch the motions of these cows in their pasture for a day, which I now see all headed one way and slowly advancing, – watch them and project their course carefully on a chart, and report all their behavior faithfully, – than wander to Europe or Asia and watch other motions there; for it is only ourselves that we report in either case, and perchance we shall report a more restless and worthless self in the latter case than in the first.




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