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By Henry David Thoreau,Debby Cotter Kaspari,Geoff Wisner

From Thoreau’s well known magazine, a treasury of memorable, humorous, and sharply saw bills of his encounters with the wild and family animals of Concord

a number of the so much shiny writings within the popular magazine of Henry David Thoreau situation creatures he stumbled on while rambling the fields, forests, and wetlands of harmony and close by groups. A prepared and considerate observer, he wrote usually approximately those animals, consistently delicate to their mysteries and deeply appreciative in their good looks and individuality. even if serenading the perch of Walden Pond together with his flute, chasing a loon around the water’s floor, looking at a conflict among black and pink ants, or carrying out a conflict of wits together with his family’s runaway pig, Thoreau penned his magazine entries with the accuracy of a scientist and the deep spirituality of a transcendentalist and mystic.
 
This quantity, like its better half Thoreau’s Wildflowers, is prepared via the times of the yr, following the growth of the turning seasons. a range of his unique sketchbook drawings is integrated, besides thirty-five beautiful illustrations by means of naturalist and artist Debby Cotter Kaspari.

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