Autumnal Tints at Walden Pond

"Already these brilliant trees throughout the street are at least equal to an annual festival and holiday.... These are cheap and innocent gala-days, celebrated by one and all without the aid of committees or marshals.... And poor indeed must be that New-England village's October which has no Maple in its streets. This October festival costs no powder, nor ringing of bells, but every tree is a living liberty-pole on which a thousand bright flags are waving."


~ Henry David Thoreau
1862





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