Thoreau said the Indian words his guides gave him "gave me a new way of seeing things," said Francis. He made a list of Indian words he had learned. Thoreau wrote: "I have much to learn of the Indian - nothing of the missionary." His interest in the Penobscots was not just a kind of a quaint interest, but very much a deep interest in other people and their ways of being in a certain kind of landscape." "They're like spiritual explorations, too. "Well, Thoreau's always an explorer, but his explorations aren't just physical," Tag said. "Do you think he saw himself as an explorer or an observer?" asked Dahler. And I go back and I read the same words I've been reading over and over again and I see them entirely differently." I've never taken this canoe trip, so to do this, it feels like - I can read Thoreau's words but it's when I've actually been in the landscape myself, had my own experience there, it's an entirely different experience. "One of the important things for me has been to put the landscape itself in my body," he said. "There's something for me knowing that those birds that woke me this morning were the same birds that woke Polis 100 and some-odd years ago," Francis said.įor Thoreau scholar Stan Tag (left, with Don Dahler), the landscape, including the majestic Mount Katahdin, brings new meaning to Thoreau's words.
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