Show there is also food for thought in the words of henry D thoreau as he compares the hires bires of the forests with humans who think less and less during the present hour of civilization although we begin to see a turnabout that is encouraging when thoreau wrote these lines people were sliding down hill at a fast pace and it will take years to find their way 1 back unless they make quick re I 1 covery of themselves and turn to tol the higher realm of thought for I 1 guidance now we are accustomed to say in new england that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year our forests furnish no mast for them so it would seem few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from f rom year to year for f or the grove in our minds is laid waste sold to feed unnecessary fires of I 1 ambition or sent to the mill and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on they no longer build or breed with us in some more genial season perchance a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind cast by the wings of some thought in its venial or autumnal migration but looking up we are unable to detect the substance of the itself our winged thoughts a are turned to poultry they no longer soar and they attain only to a shanghai and cochin china grandeur those gra a ate thoughts thoe gra a ate men you hear of 01 we hug the earth how rarely we mount methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more we might climb a tree at least I 1 found my account in climbing a tree once it was a tall white pine on the top of a hill and though I 1 gt well pitched I 1 was well paid for it for I 1 discovered new mountains in the horizon which I 1 had never seen before so much more of the earth and the heavens 1 I might have walked around the foot of that tree for threescore years years and ten and yet I 1 certainly should never have seen them solitude shows us what we should be society shows us what we are cecil of all monarchs nature is the most just in ena enactment ciment of laws and the most rigorous in punishing the vio violation latin of them wilkins it is the secret of the world that aa a 1 I things subsist and do not die but only retire a little f from rom si again and afterwards return agaid 11 emerson little mary was born in depression times and during her short existence many times heard the remark what we will do next year if we have a crop asked how old she was mary said four and next year ill be five if we have a crop |