5 quotes from Thoreau celebrating October

In these five passages from "Autumnal Tints," Henry David Thoreau celebrates October.

5. That which the eye cannot see

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"Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring our minds and eyes to bear on them; for there is no power to see in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly. We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of Nature are for this reason concealed from us all our lives."

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