Goose Pond Principles: Walk on a Frozen Pond

Описание: Where do you most often see Deer? Have you seen a Deer in the Walden Woods?

Goose Pond is accessible via the Pine Hill Trails from the Walden Pond State Reservation parking lot.
915 Walden St, Concord, MA 01742

Join me on a serene winter walk to Frozen Goose Pond, I like to walk here, there are less people than Walden pond, and it is fun to think about Emerson and Thoreau walking around the pond discussing their ideas with the tranquility of nature is on full display. The frozen pond is surrounded by snow-tipped trees and a serene landscape that invites you to take a moment to relax outdoors. As we embark on this nature walk, the crunch of snow beneath our feet is the only sound that breaks the silence, allowing us to connect with the peaceful atmosphere of the frozen pond. The stillness of Goose Pond is a sight to behold, with its icy surface covered with snow and shadows from the surrounding landscape, as the sun comes up. Follow the steps of many others and let the soothing sounds of nature calm your mind and lift your spirits.

From the walden.org
Before Thoreau came to Walden Pond, Cato Ingraham (1751-1805), a former slave, lived in a house “directly at the opening of the path from the Walden road to the Goose Pond.” Thoreau writes about Ingraham in Walden, saying he grew walnut trees to help feed his family in the future. Cato’s family did not survive to eat the walnuts “but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last.”
https://www.walden.org/property/goose...

From Emerson's journal per the age of the sage website
The brilliant & warm day let me out this morn. into the wood & to Goose Pond. Amid the many colored trees I thought what principles I might lay down as the foundations of this Course of Lectures I shall read to my fellow citizens.

1 There is a relation between man & nature so that whatever is in matter is in mind.

2 It is a necessity of the human nature that it should express itself outwardly & embody its thought.
As all creatures are allured to reproduce themselves, so must the thought be imparted in Speech. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. What is in will out. Action is as great a pleasure & cannot be forborne.

3 It is the constant endeavor of the mind to idealize the actual, to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind. Hence architecture & all art.

4 It is the constant tendency of the mind to Unify all it beholds, or to reduce the remotest facts to a single law. Hence all endeavors at classification.

5 There is a parallel tendency / corresponding Unity in nature which makes this just, as in the composition of the compound shell, or leaf, or animal from few elements.

6 There is a tendency in the mind to separate particulars & in magnifying them to lose sight of the connexion of the object with the Whole. Hence all false views, Sects;

7 Underneath all Appearances & causing all appearances are certain eternal laws which we call the Nature of Things.

8 There is one Mind common to all individual men.

Emerson - Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:221
https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/emers...

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