Winter Animals
by Henry David Thoreau • Book 15
This chapter helps you find solace during emotionally cold and secluded seasons of life through the resilient beauty of wildlife. It reminds you that beneath the bleakest stillness, vibrant life quietly endures and offers wordless companionship.
“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground”
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