“We need the tonic of wildness,

Posted on January 22, 2015November 25, 2014 by maryoconnor12

to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau

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Gray’s Beach, Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod, Mass., photo by Mary O’Connor

3 thoughts on ““We need the tonic of wildness,”

KLRan@aol.com says:

January 22, 2015 at 10:46 am

I almost missed the house way in the background! A lovely shot and quotation.

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Pit says:

January 22, 2015 at 1:50 pm

Lovely and serene: great picture.

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1. maryoconnor12 says:
  
  January 22, 2015 at 2:03 pm
  
  Thanks. Have a great day!
  
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