Excerpt from Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers
The remainder of his life was Spent in his native village or its neighborhood, varied by occasional brief visits to Boston or New York, and more lengthy excur sions to Canada, the mountains of New Hampshire, the forests of Maine, and the sandy peninsula of Cape Cod. His thrifty, self-contented nature did not need the stimulus of travel, in the ordinary sense; it was at once his pleasure and his profit to find in Concord all the material of his thought. After a brief experience of school-keeping, he supported himself by pencil-making, land-surveying, and various odd pieces of handicraft, his singular aptness and dexterity enabling him to satisfy the few wants of his existence (for he deliberately mini mised his wants in order to secure greater leisure and personal liberty) by a very small outlay of remunerative labour, and so to devote himself more freely to what he considered the real business of his life, the study of wild nature, which earned him the appropriate title of the poet-naturalist. He died at Concord, in 1862, of pul monary consumption, the result of a cold caught while botanizing in severe winter weather.
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