the Thoreau Log.
16 November 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Hubbard’s Close . . .

  Methinks the wintergreen, pipsissewa, is our handsomest evergreen, so liquid glossy green and dispersed almost all over the woods . . .

  The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard. I ask only that one fourth part of my honest thoughts be spoken aloud . . .

(Journal, 11:322-329)

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