the Thoreau Log.
17 October 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet . . .

  Methinks the reflections are never purer and more distinct than now at the season of the fall of the leaf, just before the cool twilight has come, when the air has a finer grain. Just as our mental reflections are more distinct at this season of the year, when the evenings grow cool and lengthen and our winter evenings with their brighter fires may, be said to begin . . .

(Journal, 11:215-217)

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