Quote of the Day (Nathaniel Hawthorne, on ‘Autumnal Sunshine’)

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."—American novelist/short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Oct. 10, 1842 notebook entry, The American Notebooks (1875)

(I took the photo accompanying this post nine years ago in the Ramapo Mountain State Forest in northern New Jersey.