Chapter 9: The Ponds
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.Read in Books4Free →
Walden Pond Itself
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's loving descriptions of Walden Pond as a sacred mirror of the sky and measure of the soul, including his careful sounding of its depth.
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