Tag: Chesuncook
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Of pine and man: Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s sentiment in “Chesuncook”
James MathewRobert PavlikMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States It is the living spirit of the tree, not its spirit of turpentine, with which I sympathize, and which heals my cuts. It is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a heaven, there to tower above me still.1 Henry David Thoreau’s article “Chesuncook”…