NA NA NA NA NA MA JUNE JUNE FIRST HE south-wind brings THE Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire. THRENODY JUNE SECOND Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement, namely that like draws to like, and that the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost? JUNE THIRD CIRCLES Insight we must have, or we shall run against one another, and miss the way to our food; but intellect is selfish and barren. The secret of success in society, is a certain heartiness and sympathy. MANNERS All just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles. JUNE FIFTH Lover of all things alive, JUNE SIXTH EXPERIENCE WOOD NOTES The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will. Society is servile for want of will, and therefore the world wants saviours and religions. JUNE SEVENTH FATE We shall one day see that the most private is the most public energy, that quality atones for quantity, and grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared, is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction. The history of those gods and saints which the world has written, and then worshipped, are documents of character. JUNE EIGHTH CHARACTER I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, I brought him home in his nest at even;- JUNE NINTH EACH AND ALL Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections. Other help, I find a false appearance. If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price, and at last it leaves me as it found me, neither better nor worse; but all mental and moral force is a positive good. It goes out from you, whether you will or not, and profits me whom you never thought of. JUNE TENTH USES OF GREAT MEN Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence, let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause. MONTAIGNE All my hurts My garden-spade can heal. A woodland walk, A wild rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds, and leave no cicatrice. JUNE TWELFTH MUSKETAQUID The world is his, who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,― by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. JUNE THIRTEENTH THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. JUNE FOURTEENTH NATURE The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders. There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape, as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. NATURE JUNE FIFTEENTH He trod the unplanted forest-floor, whereon WOOD NOTES JUNE SIXTEENTH We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning, and we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent, escape the sophistication and second thought, and suffer nature to entrance us. The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning, and is stimulating and heroic. NATURE JUNE SEVENTEENTH Has anything grand and lasting been done? Who did it? Plainly not any man, but all men: it was the prevalence and inundation of an idea. THE METHOD OF NATURE JUNE EIGHTEENTH Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. There is no chance, and no blanks./ WORSHIP |