Wednesday, November 15, 2017

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.

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