Henry David Thoreau Currents Quotations

Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.