A Certain Serenity And Long Lifeness In The Air

From the journals of

Henry David Thoreau:

April 27, 1860/

I stand under Lee's Cliff. There is a certain summeriness in the air now, especially under a warm cliff like this, where you smell the very dry leaves, and hear the pine warbler and the hum of a few insects, and see considerable growth and greenness.

Though it is still windy, there is, nevertheless, a certain serenity and long lifeness in the air, as if it were a habitable place and not merely to be hurried through. The noon of the year is approaching. Nature seems meditating a siesta.