Thoreau writes in his journal:
I have often been attracted by this harmonious tint in his and other drawings, and sometimes, especially, have observed it in nature when at sunset I inverted my head. We love not so well the landscape represented as in broad noon, but in a morning or evening twilight, those seasons when the imagination is most active . . .
P.M.—To the Spruce Swamp in front of J. Farmer’s. Can go across both rivers now . . .