Walden Pond - October Sunrise

One beautiful morning in October 2007, I hiked out to Thoreau's cabin site on Walden Pond and aimed a video camera at the sunrise. This is what Henry David saw at dawn in October of 1845 & 1846, if he was watching from his cabin...

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• Walden Pond
• Concord Massachusetts
• Thoreau
• Sunrise
• Thoreau cabin site
• Henry David Thoreau
• Transcendentalism

[gofloyd]

Wow. Joni Mitchell singing one of the greatest poems ever written to the backdrop of the scenes that inspired a genius. Not much more to say really.

[resumevidlance]

@gofloyd Go Floyd! Thanks. I pondered the enormous publishing miracle that enables us to post ten minutes of video to the whole planet. What would be worthwhile? This is what I came up with. Well actually, I came up with the video. I was riding in the car through Concord, Mass with my little family when this song came on the local NPR station. I knew it was the one. So in a way, the song chose to be in the video.

[resumevidlance]

"The Inward Morning" Packed in my mind lie all the clothes Which outward nature wears, And in its fasion's hourly change It all things else repairs In vain I look for change abroad, And can no difference find, Till som new ray of peace uncalled Illumes my inmost mind. What is it gilds the trees and clouds And paints the heavens so gay, But yonder fast-abiding light With its unchanging ray?

[resumevidlance]

Lo, when the sun streams through the wood, Upon a winter's morn, Where'er his silent beams intrude The murky night is gone. How could the patient pine have known The morning breeze would come, Or humble flowers anticipate The insect's noonday hum, — Till the new light with morning cheer From far streamed through the aisles, And nimbly told the forest trees For many stretching miles?

[resumevidlance]

I've heard within my inmost soul Such cheerful news, In the horizon of my mind Have seen such orient hues, As in the twilight of the dawn, When the first awake, Are heard within some silent wood, Where they the small twigs break, Or in the eastern skies are seen, Before the sun appears, The harbingers of summer heats Which from afar he bears. Henry David Thoreau

[yobhsiFehT]

Nina Simone?

[ivanwalsh1]

This is great. I read the books years ago.

[DevEclipse]

"If" - Joni Mitchell

[rhymerz78]

What song is this? I want to know the name.

This song is very very beautiful!