The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he did ...not intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Summer, you are the eucharist of death; Partake of you and never again... Will midnight foot it steeply into dawn, Dawn veer into day, Nor the praised schism be of year split off year...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.... Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... b...ut what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »