"By the 25th of September, the Red Maples generally are beginning to be ripe. Some large ones have been conspicuously changing for a week, and some single trees are now very brilliant."
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5 quotes from Thoreau celebrating October
In these five passages from "Autumnal Tints," Henry David Thoreau celebrates October.
2. The Red Maples
