Sections 1 Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village… 2 Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have… 3 The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to… 4 This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun… 5 The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving stones, excepting… 6 Yet perchance the first who came to this well have left some trace of their footsteps. 7 This rise and fall of Walden at long intervals serves this use at least; the water standing… 8 The pond was my well ready dug. 9 There have been caught in Walden pickerel, one weighing seven pounds, to say nothing of… 10 The shore is irregular enough not to be monotonous. 11 Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September… 12 When the surface is considerably agitated there are no skaters nor water-bugs on it, but… 13 The skaters and water-bugs finally disappear in the latter part of October, when the severe… 14 An old man who used to frequent this pond nearly sixty years ago, when it was dark with… 15 Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old log canoe, and the dark surrounding… 16 The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen,… 17 Flint’s, or Sandy Pond, in Lincoln, our greatest lake and inland sea, lies about a mile east… 18 Flint’s Pond! 19 No, no; if the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the… 20 He sawed a channel in the ice toward the shore, and hauled it over and along and out on to…
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