. Through the year with Thoreau. riginal idea of the tree, and sometimesNature in high tides brings her mirror to its footand makes it visible. Anxious Nature sometimes re-flects from pools and puddles the objects which ourgrovelling senses may fail to see relieved against thesky with the pure ether for background. It would be well if we saw ourselves as in perspec-tive always, impressed with distinct outline on thesky, side by side with the shrubs on the rivers let our life stand to heaven as some fair, sunlittree against the western horizon, and by sunrise beplanted on some eastern h
. Through the year with Thoreau. riginal idea of the tree, and sometimesNature in high tides brings her mirror to its footand makes it visible. Anxious Nature sometimes re-flects from pools and puddles the objects which ourgrovelling senses may fail to see relieved against thesky with the pure ether for background. It would be well if we saw ourselves as in perspec-tive always, impressed with distinct outline on thesky, side by side with the shrubs on the rivers let our life stand to heaven as some fair, sunlittree against the western horizon, and by sunrise beplanted on some eastern hill to glisten in the firstrays of the dawn. Journal, i, 139, 140. Wherever the trees and skies are reflected, thereis more than Atlantic depth, and no danger of fancyrunning aground. We notice that it required a sep-arate intention of the eye, a more free and abstractedvision, to see the reflected trees and the sky, than tosee the river bottom merely; and so there are mani-fold visions in the direction of every object, and even. C 53 ] the most opaque reflect the heavens from their sur-face. Some men have their eyes naturally intendedto the one and some to the other object. Two menin a skiff, whom we passed hereabouts, floatingbuoyantly amid the reflections of the trees, like afeather in mid-air, or a leaf which is wafted gentlyfrom its twig to the water without turning over,seemed still in their element, and to have delicatelyavailed themselves of the natural laws. Their float-ing there was a beautiful and successful experimentin natural philosophy, and it served to ennoble inour eyes the art of navigation; for as birds fly andfishes swim, so these men sailed. It reminded us howmuch fairer and nobler all the actions of man mightbe, and that our life in its whole economy might beas beautiful as the fairest works of art or and Merrimack Rivers, 47, 48. [ 54;] WILD ROSES June 15, 1853. Here are many wild roses north-east of Trillium Woods. We are liable to underra
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