item: #1 of 8 id: 1022 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Walking date: None words: 12872 flesch: 73 summary: The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. keywords: good; knowledge; like; man; men; nature; walk; wild; world; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/1022.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/1022.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 4066 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Wild Apples date: None words: 10132 flesch: 75 summary: Tacitus says of the ancient Germans that they satisfied their hunger with wild apples, among other things. It is not my â��highest plot To plant the Bergamot.â�� THE FRUIT, AND ITS FLAVOR The time for wild apples is the last of October and the first of November. keywords: apple; cider; fruit; old; tree; wild; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/4066.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/4066.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 58273 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry David Thoreau date: None words: 2461 flesch: 56 summary: The little cove at Whitehead promontory An old windmill A street in Sandwich The old Higgins tavern at Orleans A Nauset lane Nauset Bay A scarecrow Millennium Grove camp- meeting grounds A herd of cows Pond Village Dragging a dory up on the beach An old wrecker at home The Highland Light Towing along shore A cranberry meadow The sand dunes drifting in upon the trees The white breakers on the Atlantic side In Provincetown harbor Provincetownâ��A bit of the village from the wharf The day of rest A Provincetown fishing-vessel THE MAINE WOODS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS keywords: concord; henry; life; nature; thoreau cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/58273.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/58273.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 59988 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Poems of Nature date: None words: 11199 flesch: 83 summary: No speech, though kind, has it; But kinder silence doles Unto its mates; By night consoles, By day congratulates. In vain I see the morning rise, In vain observe the western blaze, Who idly look to other skies, Expecting life by other ways. keywords: day; doth; life; light; like; love; sun; thou; thy cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/59988.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/59988.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 60951 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: The Service date: None words: 4920 flesch: 73 summary: The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple, which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily, and with as pure a flame, on the obscure provincial altars as in Numaâ��s temple at Rome. It was a conceit of Plutarch, accounting for the preference given to signs observed on the left hand, that men may have thought â��things terrestrial and mortal directly over against heavenly and divine things, and do conjecture that the things which to us are on the left hand, the gods send down from their right hand.â�� If we are not blind, we shall see how a right hand is stretched over all,â��as well the unlucky as the lucky,â�� keywords: man; music; soul cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/60951.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/60951.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 63459 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Paradise (to be) Regained date: None words: 10517 flesch: 68 summary: But as these powers are very irregular and subject to interruptions; the next object is to show how they may be converted into powers that operate continually and uniformly for ever, until the machinery be worn out, or, in other words, into perpetual motionsâ�� . . . But the manner, which I shall state hereafter, of applying this power, is to make it operate only for collecting or storing up power, and then to take out of this store, at any time, as much as may be wanted for final operation upon the machines. keywords: man; men; power; time; water; wind; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/63459.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/63459.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 71 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience date: None words: 9826 flesch: 70 summary: Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believeâ��â��That government is best which governs not at all;â�� and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. keywords: government; man; right; state; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/71.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/71.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 9846 author: Thoreau, Henry David title: Excursions date: None words: 75745 flesch: 73 summary: Linnaeus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his â��combâ�� and â��spare shirt,â�� â��Heigho!â�� exclaims the traveller. keywords: air; apple; day; earth; farmerâ �; feet; forest; fruit; good; grass; great; green; ground; high; hill; house; leaves; life; like; little; long; man; men; nature; new; night; oaks; old; pines; red; river; snow; sound; spring; summer; sun; thought; time; trees; walk; water; way; wild; winter; wood; world; year; � clock; � â; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/cache/9846.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/thoreau-works/txt/9846.txt