I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi.
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About Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Henry David Thoreau, Walking.
Themes
- Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality