There are two rainy seasons in the year, and therefore two periods of flooding. There is no muddy sediment since the country is covered by such a mass of vegetation that the water flows over it without disturbing the soil beneath. Thoreau often expressed views that were disapproved by most people, even considered disloyal by many. Government does not keep the country free, nor does it settle the west, nor does it educate. It is not good, in matters of discourtesy, to dive into others' minds beyond their own comment, nor to stir upon a doubtful indignity without it, unless we have proofs that carry weight and conviction with them.
Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor shelter.
At all levels of the animal kingdom, there is safety in numbers, provided the numbers are not so great as to need more than the available food supply. The pope says that the minstrel's sins are so grievous that, just as the pope's staff can never blossom, the sins can never be forgiven. The minstrel sorrowfully returns to Germany and is lost. The Greek poets strove to achieve metrical perfection in their poetry. The Louvre in Paris has the restoration of a stone found in 1868 at Dhiban in what was ancient Moab.