The hunter's moon—also known as sanguine moon—is the first full moon after the harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox.
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“Every one finds by his own experience, as well as in history, that the era in which men cultivate the apple, and the amenities of the garden, is essentially different from that of the hunter and forest life, and neither can displace the other without loss.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smooths the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)