Naturalized At Last
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When I have left the boat
a short time the seats become intolerably hot. What luxury to bathe now! It is gloriously hot,
--the first of this weather.
I cannot get wet enough.
I must let the water soak into me. When you come out, it is rapidly dried on you or absorbed into your body, and you want to
go in again. I begin to inhabit the planet, and see how I may be naturalized at last.
--Henry David Thoreau
(journal entry for July 3, 1854)
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Pyramid Lake, Nevada
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