Tuesday, November 4, 2025

The scarlet oak must be in your eye


Henry David Thoreau on this day:


There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,— not a grain more. The actual objects which one man will see from a particular hilltop are just as different from those which another will see as the beholders are dif-ferent. The scarlet oak must, in a sense, be in your eye when you go forth. We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,-and then we can hardly see anything else.


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