Peaceful Setting Village of York

There are spots on the river where the whole world seems to go away and one is left with only the sights and sounds of nature. lbw




From Walden, Henry Thoreau, writing about the pond, "...of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity.  Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor.  Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.  It has not acquired one permanent wrinkle after all its ripples.  It is perennially young and I may stand and see a swallow dip apparently to pick an insect from its surface as of yore.  It struck me again to-night, as if I had not seen it almost daily for more than twenty years, ~ Why, so many years ago; where a forest was cut down last winter another is springing up by its shore as lustily as ever; the same thought is welling up to its surface that was then; it is the same liquid joy and happiness to itself and its Maker, ay, and it may be to me."