From Walden
From Walden.
American · English
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A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.
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A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.
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Creator: Henry David Thoreau
Nationality / cultural background: American
Work / edition: 1854
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In the source: Economy; paragraph 304 in the selected body section
Selected for the Brief on 13 Oct 2026. This date records our selection, rather than when the work was created.
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