January 2012
32 posts
“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of...”
– Thoreau
(via kingggcourtney)
“In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more...”
– Thoreau (via d4ybrandbuilder)
"You are paid for being something less of a man."
feed-your-head:
Was reading Thoreau in the subway ride back home from work, when an old man sitting next to me touched my shoulder. I was stoned, but I still remember what he said.
” I read Life Without Principle when I was in college and it changed my life. I know he’s very idealistic, but it has so much truth, you can’t deny it. It told me that I should sustain myself with my own living...
Walden.
keep-aliveforthechildren:
Solitude.
“Mourning untimely consumes the sad;
Few are the days in the land in the living,
Beautiful daughter of Toscar.”
- keep-aliveforthechildren
“The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new...”
– Selections from Thoreau’s Walden (via thinblueflame)
“But, if I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or...”
– Henry David Thoreau in “Resistance to Civil Government” (via mysteriousforeigner)
Cannot wait to be back here
in-my-minds-eye-horatio:
Photo Credit: Jessica Breda
“Those spotted maple leaves, — what mean their bright colors? Yellow with a...”
– Thoreau (via pandalikespoetry)
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via oh-susanna)
December 2011
62 posts
“The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via monstrum-anima-operta)
“I fear that the character of my knowledge is from year to year becoming more...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 27 august 1851. (via emptybrain)
caliginosus:
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: the shore of my Ithaca…Thoreau’s Journal: 07-Jul-1845
I am glad to remember to-night, as I sit by my door, that I too am at least a remote descendant of that heroic race of men of whom there is tradition. I too sit here on the shore of my Ithaca, a fellow-wanderer and survivor of Ulysses. How symbolical, significant of I know not what,...
“Always the general show of things
Floats in review before my mind,
And such...”
– Henry David Thoreau, from: “Inspiration” (via wonderfulambiguity)
Today is dedicated to Gratitude
markbartels:
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual… O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
Henry David Thoreau
“Thoreau said “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to...”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via fuckyeahdeadpoetssociety)
We Recommend: Walden
awakenourworld:
Have you ever wanted to live in harmony with nature, to feel the connectedness of man and the world around him? Henry David Thoreau maps out a plan to made this happen in his book, Walden. As much as man’s individuality as it is about the beauty of nature, Walden changes with every read. Challenging but beautiful, this book will make you rethink many things you thought you held...
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via eudaimonist)
“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via collegetao)