Natural history, reading books of, =5=, 103, 105.
Natural life, the, =1=, 405.
Nature, adorned, =1=, 18, 19; laws of, for man, 34; indifference of,
117; provisions of, for end of her creatures, 236; tame and wild, 337;
and Art, 339; composing her poem Autumn, 403; adapted to our weakness
as to our strength, =2=, 12; a liberty in, 143; no melancholy or
solitude in the midst of, 145-147; the medicines of, 153; known only
as a robber by the farmer, 183; men who become a part of, 232, 233;
questions and answers of, 312; our knowledge of the laws of, 320;
helping lay the keel of, 334; principle of operations of, 340; man's
need of, 350; the earth as made by, =3=, 77, 78; always young, 89, 90;
the coarse use of, 133; health to be found in, =5=, 105; man's work
the most natural compared with that of, 119; the hand of, upon her
children, 124, 125; different methods of work, 125; the civilized look
of, 141; the winter purity of, 167; a _hortus siccus_ in, 179; men's
relation to, 241, 242; love of, =6=, 3, 37, 64, 231, 277; objects of,
9, 36, 37, 71, 74, 75, 83, 87, 93.
Nature, verse, =5=, 395.
"Nature doth have her dawn each day," verse, =1=, 302.
"Nature has given horns," verse, =1=, 242.
Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, =4=, 31, 64.
Nauset Lights, =4=, 41.
Nawshawtuct Hill, =5=, 384.
Nebraska Bill, the, =4=, 403.
Necessaries of life, =2=, 12, 13.
Necessity, a seeming fate, commonly called, =2=, 6.
Negro slavery, =2=, 8.
Neighborhood, avoiding a bad, ourselves, =2=, 37.
Neptune, Louis, =3=, 10, 86; a call on governor, 162, 163; the old
chief, 174.
Neptune, the god, =6=, 28; the planet, 138.
Nerlumskeechticook Mountain, =3=, 249, 260, 291, 297, 298, 301.
Nesenkeag, =1=, 206.
Nests, fishes', =1=, 24, 25; =6=, 63, 161.
Neva marshes at Walden Pond, no, =2=, 23.
New Bedford, =6=, 235-240, 258, 261, 263, 265, 271, 274, 313, 333,
341, 342, 352, 359, 396.
New clothes, beware of all enterprises requiring, =2=, 26.
Newcomb, Charles, =6=, 298, note.
New England, Arcadian element in the life of, =1=, 256; "Walden" of
and for people of, =2=, 4; hardships endured that men may die in, 15;
wealth causes respect in, 25; mean life lived by inhabitants of, 107;
can hire all the wise men of the world to teach her, 122; natural
sports of, 233; Rum, 285; Night's entertainment, a, 297.
New Hampshire, =1=, 85; for the Antipodes, leaving, 151; man, a, 211;
line, crossing the, 377; =6=, 329, 331, 334-336, 363, 365.
New Hollander, naked when European shivers in clothes, =2=, 14.
New Jersey, =6=, 70, 283-290.
New Netherland, Secretary of Province, quoted, =2=, 43.
"New Orleans Crescent" and Whitman, =6=, 291.
New Testament, the, =1=, 72-75, 142; practicalness of, 146; =6=, 137.
New things to be seen near home, =5=, 211, 212.
Newbury (Mass.), =1=, 87.
Newbury port (Mass.), =1=, 87-89.
Newfound Lake, =1=, 87, 89.
News, getting the, from ocean steamers, =1=, 253; "What's the," =2=,
104; futility of the, 104.
Newspapers, reading, on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 194; influence and
servility of Boston, =4=, 398-400; and John Brown, 416, 417; evils of
reading the, 471-476; =6=, 175, 176, 180, 186.
Newton, Sir Isaac, =6=, 136.
"New World," =6=, 107, note.
New York, =6=, 18, 35, 50, 53, 62, 68, 70, 72, 78-80, 83-87, 90, 95,
101, 107, note, 109, 117, 121, 283, 287, 291, 296, 297.
New Zealand, =6=, 236, 255, 381, 383, note.
Niagara, =6=, 384.
Nicketow (Me.) =3=, 7, 19, 260, 316, 319.
Niebuhr, Barthold George, quoted, =5=, 290.
Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore, quoted, =5=, 238.
Night, thoughts in the, =1=, 354; walking the woods by, =2=, 187-190;
in the woods, a, =3=, 43-45; thoughts by a stream at, 131; sounds in
the woods at, 247, 248; on Wachusett, =5=, 146; the senses in the,
=5=, 327, 328; on the mountain, =6=, 371; on the river, 231. _See_
Sunset.