Henry David Thoreau’s ” In Wildness Is the preservation of the World” with the photographs by Eliot Porter, 1962

Henry David Thoreau’s ” In Wildness Is the preservation 
of the World” with the photographs by Eliot Porter, 1962

TANAKA Akio

Yesterday I read Henry David Thoreau’s 
“ In Wildness Is the preservation of the World” 
with the photographs by Eliot Porter, 1962.  
I felt the universality of nature from the book,
 that is over the nations or the difference of 
the Occidental and Oriental. Thoreau’s 
sentences are so fine and delicate as 
the following.

March 30, 1984Pray, what thing interest me 
at present? Along, soaking rain, the drops 
trickling down the stubble, while I lay drenched 
on last year’s bed of wild oats, by the side of 
some bare hill, ruminating.

Tokyo
25 September 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language