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• The Prison of Fame Revisited

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 134
  I sometimes wonder whether a few folks who read my repeated warnings about the toxicity of fame and wealth maybe chuckle to themselves and say, “he’d grab at them like everybody else if they came his way, the hypocrite.”It’s actually a reasonably fair criticism, and I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen it ...
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  Living Creatively Ever After — Authority: 129
  Go confidentlyIn the direction of your Dreams.Live the lifeyou’ve imagined!~ Henry David ThoreauLiving your dreams. What are your dreams? Are you confident to say that you’re living your dreams or at least on your way to reaching them?I’ve been thinking a lot about my dreams lately. It’s weird, but I don’t ...
  3 days ago

• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

  
  ... ktr?dy pjd? dzicy ?wi?ci — Authority: 123
  Henry David Thoreau - amerykański pisarz, myśliciel i przyrodnik dziewiętnastowieczny, należący do kręgu transcendentalistów, przyjaźnił się m.in. z twórcą tego ruchu R.W. Emersonem. Wielki miłośnik i obserwator przyrody, spędzający wiele godzin dziennie na pieszych wędrówkach. Starał się ...
  5 days ago

• nothing more divine

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  As I get ready for sunday morning meditation, sweeping the floor, straightening cushions, refreshing the flowers, and setting out tea cups, my focus is on Now. Personal worries naturally make room as I shift my intention to serving others. In a story, the student approaches his teacher, saying , “I feel so ...
  6 days ago

• Evening Landscapes

  
  Let a Woman Learn — Authority: 114
  Softly the evening came. The sun from the horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape; Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and earth and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch and melted and mingled together. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~ from Evangeline Thomas Worthington Whittredge ...
  1 week ago

• Thoreau Country (A Poem in Four Parts)

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
  Thoreau Country              I  (Cochituate Pines)  Not since the temples and shrines of Kyoto have I seen such mystic pagodas reaching and spreading with sacred incense and glowing in slanting sunrays that highlight their own deep aura of ageless yellow moss.                ...
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• Annihilator of Distance (A Poem)

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
  Annihilator of Distance Not the astronauts circling around the Earth, nor jet pilots breaking sound barriers, but Henry Thoreau skating on ice, whizzing past white birches and bright red berries, annihilating distance between man and Nature, recording a sacred correspondence with his mind. The screaming jays ...
  2 weeks ago

• Walden Pondering

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    I was feeling walled in , so I went Walden and wandered off the usual roads today. What did I find? A  foggy golf course, barb wire fences protecting nature, a squirrel, a garbage dump, a bunch of farms, and a few junker businesses. I was Thoreau ly surprised.   note: this bus was the most ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Picket Line — 14 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  14 November 2009 From the concluding paragraph of a letter from H.D. Thoreau to R.W. Emerson (who was in England at the time), on this day in 1847: They have been choosing between John Keyes and Sam Staples, if the world wants to know it, as representative of this town, and Staples is chosen. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Famous Quotes on Vegetarian Diet

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 155
  I’m not saying these justify anything. Just something to think about. Leonardo da Vinci Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will ...
  2 weeks ago

• If One Advances Confidently…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 435
  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.  Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently…
  2 weeks ago

• Thoreau Mental Floss

  
  Meanwhile... — Authority: 126
  In my latest post about John Brown I linked to and quoted from Henry David Thoreaus "A Plea for Captain John Brown."  A little later I was scanning through the mental_floss blog when I ran across " 3 Bizarre Cases of Death by Shaving ."  Death by shaving?  Wow!  The first guy contracted anthrax from the badger ...
  3 weeks ago

• "A great painter is at work...."

  
  Let a Woman Learn — Authority: 114
  "Think what a change, unperceived by many, has within a month come over the landscape! Then the general, the universal, hue was green. Now see those brilliant scarlet and glowing yellow trees in the low lands a mile off! I see them, too, here and there on the sides of hills, standing out distinct, mere bright [an ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Echo of the Place We Are In

  
  "minutiae" by Nathan Abels — Authority: 132
  City Park, Denver - photo by Lorna Cochrane Henry David Thoreau - October 30, 1850 (yesterday, 159 years ago) "I used to strike with a paddle on the side of my boat on Walden Pond, filling the surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, awaking the woods, “stirring them up,” as a keeper of a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Success Usuallly Comes…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 435
  Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.  Henry David Thoreau Success usuallly comes…
  4 weeks ago

• deep draughts

  
  Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian — Authority: 122
  "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. ...
  4 weeks ago

• confidence

  
  nature calling — Authority: 127
  • “I land at Pinxter Swamp. The leaves of the azaleas are falling, mostly fallen, and revealing the large blossom-buds, so prepared are they for another year. With man all is uncertainty. He does not confidently look forward to another spring. But examine the root of the savory-leaved aster, and you will ...
  4 weeks ago

• TASKS OF AVOIDANCE

  
  Hal Alpiar's Blog — Authority: 127
  Stop with picking your                                          yellow leaves, already! ...
  4 weeks ago

• Korean Had Patriotic Reasons to Kill Ito, and Personal Ones, Too

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  "I came to Harbin for the sole purpose of assassinating Prince Ito to avenge my country," the unidentified Korean assassin declared after firing six shots in a crowded Manchurian railway station, three of which found their target.
  4 weeks ago

• Lake Ontarios shoreline in fall...

  
  Guildwood Village on the Lake — Authority: 120
  A lake is the landscapes most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earths eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. - Henry David Thoreau
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