The first depends more on light, and follows the sky. ... Viewed from a hilltop, it reflects the color of the sky, but near at hand it is of a yellowish tint next to the shore where you can see the sand, then a light green (235) Thoreau states that the colors of the water are different at different angles and can even be different from the same point of view. ... In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set around with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. ... It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose ...

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