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"The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That’s why the planets are so much better company than the stars — they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you’re going to find them."

~ Henry David Thoreau (via restless-sands)

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theedsbroassassin:

Deep hipster shit
pathlesswoodspleasure:

Sometimes I think my life is TOO interesting. But really…

pathlesswoodspleasure:

Sometimes I think my life is TOO interesting. But really…


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"Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

~ Walden (via aimatsomethinghigh)

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"I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me."

~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden. (via acknowledgetheabsurd)

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lilmissdogooder:

Thoreau, New Mexico

lilmissdogooder:

Thoreau, New Mexico


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3rdcoastfieldnotes:

walden.

life after quals: yesterday i met my mom & brother in concord and we wandered around walden pond for awhile.  walden has taken on this mythical quality in my life because my advisor & his golden grad student (my current acadia boss) did their flagship fieldwork with thoreau’s data. but it turns out, walden is just a pond.  the woods are pretty much the same as all the other forests on old fields across new england.  and, in the gift shop i found the thread connecting all of it —  a copy of thoreau’s maine woods, because even henry david felt the pull of katahdin…

"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character"

~ Henry David Thoreau (via ahlan-wa-sahlan)

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"Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men…who think they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure."

~ Walden Henry David Thoreau (via minedsojourns)

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