February 2012
10 posts
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise,...”
– Henry Thoreau - Walden (via insearchofanhonestman)
“It was a quiet Sunday morning, with more of the auroral rosy and white than of...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via iamtheadventurer)
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via considerthishippie)
“Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even...”
– Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (via capslockraptor)
“We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via logicisstupid)
“Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes...”
– Henry David Thoreau
ACTION FROM PRINCIPLE
(via intimos)
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)