Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
When all has been said,
the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live,
and not to have joy in it and awe of it,
not to share in it,
is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House
Castle Neck, The Crane Estate, Massachusetts
October is the month when we, humans, take to heart the leaves,
see their forms, colors, and feel the warmth of their shine.
Each one with the other in the glowing symphony we call Autumn...
My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself.
I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer's sun.
What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer.
HENRY D. THOREAU, Journals, February 26, 1841
