Canoeing in the Wilderness by Thoreau fish Caramel Middle: Sea Salt

Caramel     Middle: Sea Salt

but missing their homes and friends

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature” declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality

Campfire Stories brings together tales about our national parks

and poppinginventions just make him angry

Canoeing in the Wilderness by Thoreau fish Caramel Middle: Sea SaltAt the time Thoreau made this wilderness canoe trip he was forty years old. The record of the journey is the latter half of his The Maine Woods, which is perhaps the finest idyl of the forest ever written. It is particularly charming in its blending of meditative and poetic fancies with the minute description of the voyagers experiences. The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region. Here was a vast