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...burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts." He rejoices in the hootings of owls : "It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." By art and by sympathy he gained a close acquaintance with these poor relations of Humanity ; and his...

...equalled him in his descriptions of sounds. " I rejoice," he says, " that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." Thoreau was a poet, rather than a philosopher. The luminous medium through which he saw all things...

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...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal...

...music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung." " I rejoice that there are owls ! " he cries. " It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...suggesting a vast and undeveloped Nature which men have not recognised. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the...

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...delight in all that is dark and dismal. In the words of Thoreau : "Their 'hoo-hoo-hoo, hooer-hoo', is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast undeveloped nature which ttien have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied...

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...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath ; but now a more dismal...