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"...as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle."

         -Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

This quote caught my attention, because the description was written so well, that i could picture everything happening in my mind. It also made me relax too. Just thinking about being in an area with a lake, as the sun came up, made me feel calm and collected with myself. It also made me wish that this was one of those places I could go to if i was having a hard day.

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"...some tall, arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber."

          -Economy

This quote made me actually think about what it was talking about. I understood that he (Thoreau) said that he was going to cut down the trees to build his house to live in, but i had to think about the tree as a whole. Were they actually white? and What did he mean when he used the word 'arrowy'?  Once I found out that he meant that the tree resembled an arrow, did I realize he was actually talking about a pine tree. But, the 'white pines' part made me think about the possiblity that there was snow falling at this time. Then I came to the thought of, why didn't he cut the trees that were fully grown instead of the trees that were 'still in thier youth'? I then thought about if it was because the tree was a symbol of him. Maybe it was symbolizing that he was tall and young.