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

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  6.30 A.M.—Very hard frost these mornings; the grasses, to their finest branches, clothed with it.

  P.M.—To Baker Farm, on foot . . .

  Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle! . . .

(Journal, 11:259-263)

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