Quote of the Day (Henry David Thoreau, on a Pond in Winter)

“Out on the silent pond straightway
The restless ice doth crack,
And pond sprites merry gambols play
Amid the deafening rack.
 
“Eager I hasten to the vale,
As if I heard brave news,
How nature held high festival,
Which it were hard to lose.
 
“I gambol with my neighbor ice,
And sympathizing quake,
As each new crack darts in a trice
Across the gladsome lake.”— American essayist, naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), “Fair Haven,” in Collected Essays and Poems, edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell (2001)
 
I took the image accompanying this post during the winter four years ago in Pascack Brook County Park in Bergen County, NJ.