. Through the year with Thoreau . the greatest and besteffect, which like this were not contrived for the sakeof effect.) An open path which would suggest walk-ing and adventuring on it, the going to some placestrange and far away. It would make you think ofor imagine distant places and spaces greater thanthe estate. It was pleasant, looking back just beyond, to seea heavy shadow (made by some high birches) reach-ing quite across the road. Light and shadow are suffi-cient contrast and furnish sufficient excitement whenwe are well. Now we were passing the vale of Brown and Tar-bell, a sunshiny
. Through the year with Thoreau . the greatest and besteffect, which like this were not contrived for the sakeof effect.) An open path which would suggest walk-ing and adventuring on it, the going to some placestrange and far away. It would make you think ofor imagine distant places and spaces greater thanthe estate. It was pleasant, looking back just beyond, to seea heavy shadow (made by some high birches) reach-ing quite across the road. Light and shadow are suffi-cient contrast and furnish sufficient excitement whenwe are well. Now we were passing the vale of Brown and Tar-bell, a sunshiny mead pastured by cattle and spark-ling with dew, the sound of crows and swallowsheard in the air, and leafy-columned elms seen hereand there shining with dew. The morning freshnessand unworldliness of that domain! The vale ofTempe and of Arcady is not farther off than are theconscious lives of men from their opportunities. Ourlife is as far from corresponding to its scenery as weare distant from Tempe and Arcadia; that is to they are far away because we are far from livingnatural lives. How absurd it would be to insist onthe vale of Tempe in particular when we have suchvales as we have! Journal, ii, 454. C 84 ] SUNSET ON THE RIVER September 6, 1854. There are many clouds aboutand a beautiful sunset sky, a yellowish (dunnish?)golden sky, between them in the horizon, lookingup the river. The beauty of the sunset is doubledby the reflection. Being on the water we have doublethe amount of lit and dun-colored sky above andbeneath. The reflected sky is more dun and richerthan the real one. Take a glorious sunset sky anddouble it, so that it shall extend downward beneaththe horizon as much as above it, blotting out theearth, and let the lowest half be of the deepest tint,and every beauty more than before insisted on, andyou seem withal to be floating directly into it. Itwas in harmony with this fair evening that we werenot walking or riding with dust and noise throughit, but mov
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