Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal ...movements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes... him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to grandeur, nor can it much concern one... who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore; yet this pond is so remarkable for its depth and purity as to merit a particular description. It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation. The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile. They are exclusively woodland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for the inlet or outlet of Walden, I have not yet discovered any but rain and snow and evaporation, though perhaps, with a ther...mometer and a line, such places may be found.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the f...act that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan, or thought:... no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept: terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities of escape open: no route shut,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
risk is full: every living thing in siege: the demand is life, to keep life: the small... white blacklegged egret, how beautiful, quietly stalks and spears the shallows, darts to shore to stab--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside... from outside: I have drawn no lines:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »