Henry David Thoreau’s diary, 1846

March

1. 13 March 1846

   The song sparrow and blackbird heard to-day. The snow going off. The ice in the pond one foot thick.

2. 26 March 1846

   The change from foul weather to fair, from dark, sluggish hours to serene, elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. The change from foulness…