The Invention of Nature

‘spirit is matter reduced’: Ibid., vol.3, 1983, p.31.

55

‘not come from experience’: Emerson, 1842, Richardson 1986, p.73.

56

‘of knowing truth’: J.A. Saxon, ‘Prophecy, – Transcendentalism, – Progress’,

The Dial

, vol.2, 1841, p.90.

57

Thoreau reoriented his life: Dean 2007, p.82ff.; Walls 1995, pp.116–17; Thoreau to Harrison Gray Otis Blake, 20 November 1849, Thoreau Correspondence 1958, p.250; Thoreau, 8 October 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4, p.133.

58

‘Field Notes’: Thoreau, 21 March 1853, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.6, p.20.

59

‘botany box’: Thoreau, 23 June 1852, ibid., vol.5, p.126; see also Channing 1873, p.247.

60

scientists today: Richard Primack, a professor of biology at Boston University, has collaborated with colleagues at Harvard to use Thoreau’s journals for studies in climate change. Utilizing Thoreau’s meticulous entries they have discovered that climate change has come to Walden Pond as many of the spring flowers now flower more than ten days earlier; see Andrea Wulf, ‘A Man for all Seasons’,

New York Times

, 19 April 2013.

61

‘I omit the unusual’: Thoreau, 28 August 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4, p.17.

62

‘I feel ripe for’: Thoreau, 16 November 1850, ibid., vol.3, pp.144–5.

63

Thoreau reading AH: Sattelmeyer 1988, pp.206–7, 216; Walls 1995, pp.120–21; Walls 2009, pp.262–8; for Thoreau and AH’s books, 6 January 1851, meeting of the Standing Committee of the Concord Social Library, in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s hand: ‘The Committee have added to the Library in the last year Humboldts Aspects of Nature’; Box 1, Folder 4, Concord Social Library Records (Vault A60, Unit B1), William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library.

64

‘a sort of elixir’: Thoreau, ‘Natural History of Massachusetts’, Thoreau Excursion and Poems 1906, p.105.

65

‘His reading was done’: Channing 1873, p.40.

66

AH in Thoreau’s journals and publications:

Thoreau’s Fact Book in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library. The Facsimile of Thoreau’s Manuscript

, ed. Kenneth Walter Cameron, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1966, vol.3, 1987, pp.193, 589;

Thoreau’s Literary Notebook in the Library of Congress

, ed. Kenneth Walter Cameron, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1964, p.362; Sattelmeyer 1988, pp.206–7, 216; AH mentioned in Thoreau’s published work: For example

Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada

, and

The Maine Woods.

67

‘Humboldt says’: Thoreau, 1 April 1850, 12 May 1850, 27 October 1853, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.3, pp.52, 67–8 and vol.7, p.119.

68

‘Where is my cyanometer’: Thoreau, 1 May 1853, ibid., vol.6, p.90.

69

Orinoco and Concord: Thoreau, 1 April 1850, ibid., vol.3, p.52.

70

Peterborough hills and Andes: Thoreau, 13 November 1851, ibid., vol.4, p.182.

71

‘large Walden Pond’: Myerson 1979, p.52.

72

‘Standing on the Concord’: Thoreau, ‘A Walk to Wachusett’, Thoreau Excursion and Poems 1906, p.133.

73

‘drink at my well’: Thoreau Walden 1910, pp.393–4.

74

travel at home: Thoreau, 6 August 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.3, p.356.

75

‘but how much alive’: Thoreau, 6 May 1853, ibid., vol.8, p.98.

76

‘your own streams’: Thoreau Walden 1910, p.423.

77

‘You tell me it is’: Thoreau, 25 December 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4, p.222.

78

‘which enriches the understanding’: Ibid.

79

‘deprived thereby of the’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.2, p.72; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.2, p.74.

80

‘chill the feelings’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.1, p.21; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.1, p.21.

81

‘deeply-seated bond’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.2, p.87; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.2, p.90.

82

‘Every poet has trembled’: Thoreau, 18 July 1852; see also 23 July 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.3, p.331 and vol.5, p.233.

83

‘a true account’: Henry David Thoreau,

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906, vol. 1, p.347.

84

stopped using journal for poetry and facts: Sattelmeyer 1988, p.63; Walls 2009, p.264.

85

‘the most interesting & beautiful’: Thoreau, 18 February 1852, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4, p.356.

86

Thoreau wrote seven drafts of

Walden

(footnote): Sattelmeyer 1992, p.429ff.; Shanley 1957, pp.24–33.

87

changes of

Walden

manuscript: Sattelmeyer 1992, p.429ff.; Shanley 1957, p.30ff.

88

‘I feel myself uncommonly’: Thoreau, 7 September 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4, p.50.

89

‘The year is a circle’: Thoreau, 18 April 1852, ibid., p.468.

90

seasonal lists: Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.2, p.494; see also his seasonal charts extracted from his journals, Howarth 1974, p.308ff.

91

‘a book of the seasons’: Thoreau, 6 November 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.3, p.253, 255.

92

‘I enjoy the friendship’: Thoreau Walden 1910, p.173.

93