Seen as on the sea – shadows of clouds on the broad and level meadow. HDT ~ July 11, 1856

It is but a step from flowers to fruit – the size of these green berries!

Screech owl peers at me that ludicrously solemn and complacent way. HDT ~ July 10, 1856

Now with a clear sky the distant horizon is a narrow blue line. HDT ~ July 9, 1855 (Cape Cod)

The moon reflected from the rippled surface like a stream of dollars. HDT ~ July 8, 1854

Half-grown young peetweets suddenly hide in the grass but few feet from me. HDT ~ July 6, 1856 tinyurl.com/HDT-560706

I came here to live . . . always there was the sound of the morning cricket. HDT ~ July 5, 1845 tinyurl.com/hdt-julycric...

What troops are those on our right, uniforms looking black in the distance, muskets glittering in the sunlight and battle flags fluttering in the breeze created by their quickened motion.? The Sixteenth Vermont, July 3, 1863 tinyurl.com/16thVt-630403

A haymaker with his suspenders crossed before as well as behind. HDT ~ June 30, 1856

The red undersides of the great white lily pads exposed by the wind. HDT ~ June 29, 1852

To see all nature with wonder and awe – lightning with serenity. HDT ~ June 27, 1852

There is a flower for every mood of the mind – wild roses in bloom. HDT ~ June 25, 1852 tinyurl.com/HDTwildrose

Nighthawks fly low and touch the water like swallows over Walden Pond. HDT ~ June 21, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560621

Tiarella grows here and yellow lady’s-slipper near the Quarry. HDT ~ June 18, 1856

The outline of the slate- colored rain falling from the black cloud passing south. HDT ~ June 17, 1852

The steep side of a rock – a wood thrush’s nest lined with pine-needles; three eggs. HDT June 16, 1856

Moist bass bark just stripped from a sapling smells very like a cucumber. HDT ~ June 15, 1856

Brown shows me from his window the word “guano” written on the grass. HDT ~ June 13, 1856

Cumuli drifting in the intensely blue sky – glowing white borders. HDT ~ June 11, 1856

Ripe strawberries hard at first to detect amid the red radical leaves. HDT ~ June 10, 1856

I notice an elm in the shadow of a cloud – the shadows of June. HDT ~ June 9, 1856

Something reminds me of the ephemera – now I notice a great flight. HDT ~ June 8, 1856

I sit in my boat in the twilight by the edge of the river. HDT ~ June 7, 1858

The long-beaked willow, one of the ochre-flowered, now just beginning. HDT ~ June 6, 1856

Red lady’s-slippers, with two broad curving green leaves, rejoicing in June. HDT ~ June 5, 1856

A duck's nest found on a hummock in the swamp, made of dry sedge and moss. HDT ~ June 4, 1856

A chickadee nest in a hollow maple stump – seven tiny eggs. HDT ~ June 3, 1856

The dark dim outlines of the trees coming to meet me out of the mist. HDT ~ June 2, 1853 tinyurl.com/hdt-530602

To be soothed and cheered by I know not what at first . . . the creak of crickets. HDT ~ June 1, 1856

That cerastium on the rock at the Island . . . another rare plant. HDT ~May 31, 1856

uninterrupted - morning wind forever blows poem of the world HDT~ May 30, 1853

Painted-Cup Meadow – where you find a rare flower expect to find more. HDT ~ May 29, 1856

A bullfrog trumps once after sunset on river – warm summer-like night. HDT ~ May 23, 1856

Yellow butterfly over the middle of the flooded meadow. HDT ~ May 22, 1856

Strong colored fellows black, white, and fiery red – rose-breasted grosbeaks. HDT ~ May 21, 1856

So now is Nature’s grandest voice heard, and her sharpest flashes seen. HDT ~ May 20, 1856

He looked at my sail – I listened to his singing inviting the muse. HDT ~May 19, 1856

This tender fresh green – the world can never be more beautiful than now. HDT ~ May 18, 1852

This golden-green gem, burnished back dusted with gold, glowing ruby breast hummingbird with me in the deep wild swamp bringing a larger summer. HDT ~ May 17, 1856

See for a moment a warbler with blue-slate head all yellow beneath. HDT ~ May 15, 1856

Loud golden robins – their clear note betrays them as soon as they arrive. HDT ~ May 14, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560514

The sounds and sights of birds and flowers heard and seen when they are fewest. HDT ~ May 14 tinyurl.com/HDT14May

Methinks I hear and see the tanager now. ~ May 13, 1853 Surprising red bird – a tanager against the darkening green leaves.

How suddenly the birds arrive after the storm – a glorious day. HDT ~ MAY 12, 1856

This forth day of rain a veery hopping silent under the alders. HDT ~ May 11, 1856

The third day of rain – I would gladly walk far in this stormy weather. HDT ~ May 10, 1856

Suddenly summer has come upon us, and the birds all together. HDT ~ May 8, 1857

Earth is a garden wherever the poet goes, or thinks. HDT ~ May 6, 1858

a yellow butterfly, — how hot! this meteor dancing through the air. HDT– May 5, 1859