Thoreau
November 6
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Sunday.
To Lee's Cliff. It is remarkable how little we attend to what is passing before us constantly, unless our genius directs our attention that way. There are these little sparrows with white in tail, perhaps the prevailing bird of late, which have flitted before me so many falls and springs, and yet they have been as it were strangers to me, and I have not inquired whence they came or whither they were going, or what their habits were. It is surprising how little most of us are contented to know about the sparrows which drift about in the air before us just before the first snows. I hear the downy woodpecker's metallic tchip or peep.
I perceive that the starting of the amelanchier buds is a very common phenomenon, this fall at least, and when partially unfolded they are, frost-bitten. See a few robins. 1853 Other Entries |