Walden, a summer morning in the doorway

Author: Henry David Thoreau Year: 1854 Length: 430 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.

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This passage comes from the chapter Thoreau called Sounds. He built the cabin himself for a little over twenty eight dollars and listed every expense in the book. Walden grew out of the journal he kept for most of his adult life. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

What it trainsOne sentence stretches across the whole passage, which builds the habit of reading ahead and breathing evenly.