Thoreau on Loneliness
Apr 17th, 2008 by kitliz
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun… I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or horse-fly, or a humble-bee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
~H.D. Thoreau, Walden
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I’d totally give up body parts to be able to write like that……..