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"An essential step in Thoreau’s recovery of a ‘natural life’ is to reawaken and expand his awareness of the present moment, not only in the sense of knowing more of the world around him, but of entering into it fully. Admitting in Walden that ‘I did not read books the first summer; I hoed... read more
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On a sunny winter Sunday in Concord, February 18, 1838, Thoreau meditated on the aptness of the day's name in a brief journal entry: "Rightly named Suna-day or day of the sun- One is satisfied in some angle by wood-house and garden fence-to bask in his beams-to exist barely-the livelong day."
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- David Robinson (Author)
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