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1 Oct 2021

from Spring

14-..... One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in. The ice in the pond at length begins to be honeycombed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk. Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually melting the snow; the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how I shall get through the winter without adding to my wood-pile, for large fires are no longer necessary. I am on the alert for the first signs of spring, to hear the chance note of some arriving bird, or the striped squirrel's chirp, for his stores must be now nearly exhausted, or see the woodchuck venture out of his winter quarters. ...

 

According to Thoreau in Section 14 of Walden, one attraction he had in going to the woods to live was to

A. have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in.

B. see how I shall get through the winter without adding to my wood-pile...

C. see ice when it's honeycombed and "set my heel in it as I walk."