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• November 10, 1856

  
  THIS DATE, FROM HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S JOURNAL — Authority: 126
  About the 10th of November, I first noticed long bunches of very small dark-purple or black grapes fallen on the dry leaves in the ravine east of Spring’s house. Quite a large mass of clusters remained hanging on the leafless vine, thirty feet overhead there, till I left, on the 24th November. These grapes were much ...
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• November 9, 1855

  
  THIS DATE, FROM HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S JOURNAL — Authority: 126
  I affect what would commonly be called a mean and miserable way of living. I thoroughly sympathize with all savages and gypsies in so far as they merely assert the original right of man to the productions of Nature and a place in her. The Irishman moves into the town, sets up a shanty on the railroad land, and then ...
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• If One Advances Confidently…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 480
  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…
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• Thoreau Mental Floss

  
  Meanwhile... — Authority: 425
  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 ...
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• Where The Walden Things Are

  
  IT IN place — Authority: 119
  Here is the little Hobbit house where I lay my hairy feet. If ever you feel like voyaging in and out of days - over and under rivers to where the Walden things are, we will be certain to Rumpus. WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, ...
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• "A great painter is at work...."

  
  Let a Woman Learn — Authority: 110
  "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 ...
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• Thoreau’s “Walking”

  
  In a Dark Time ... The Eye Begins to See — Authority: 121
  In the not-too-distant past several people recommended Thoreau’s essay “Walking,” a work I’d never read before. Since Walden was one of my favorite works, I couldn’t resist dopwnloading it, especially since it’s free. I’ll have to admit, though, that at first I was less enamored of it than I thought I ...
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• Can Disney’s Davy Crockett Save America?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  My parents used to tell me that I could sing “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier” before I could talk. I don’t doubt it; I loved that show. Fess Parker, a Texan, played Crocket in television’s first three-episode mini-series, produced by Walt Disney in 1955. The theme song, sung by Parker, was the ...
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• 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 ...
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• Success Usuallly Comes…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 480
  Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.  Henry David Thoreau Success usuallly comes…
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• The Journal of Henry David Thoreau

  
  ThoughtCast — Authority: 98
  Henry David Thoreau is justly famous for his book Walden , which tells the story of the two years he spent living by the pond , in the Concord woods. But he also wrote a journal, which he started at age 20 in 1837, and kept up until 1861, shortly before he died. This diary of Thoreau’s daily thoughts and ...
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• deep draughts

  
  Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian — Authority: 116
  "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. ...
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• 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 ...
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• TASKS OF AVOIDANCE

  
  Hal Alpiar's Blog — Authority: 126
  Stop with picking your                                          yellow leaves, already! ...
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• Korean Had Patriotic Reasons to Kill Ito, and Personal Ones, Too

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  "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.
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• Lake Ontarios shoreline in fall...

  
  Guildwood Village on the Lake — Authority: 126
  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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• The Wilderness Journey of a Narcissist

  
  Marking Time — Authority: 103
    “Metamorphosis of Narcissus”, 1937, Salvador Dali Doing some homework this week as part of  a sort of inner inventory. Specifically I’m looking at some of the classic myths, stories and symbols that I have taken up or been given as my own personal “sacred stories” (to use Soulcraft author Bill ...
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• Questions + Answers from the Hero Dossier at Fresh Media – Feasthouse Podcast

  
  Ephemeral Feasthouse — Authority: 98
  At Fresh Media conference at W2 Arts + Media Centre, participants riff a spontaneous blurb about a hero from a Dossier of Importantancy in a workshop about storytelling + podcasting by Dave Olson (AKA Uncle Weed). Features Samuel Pepys , RMS Carpathia , Amber Case , Thomas Paine, J. Garcia, Mudhoney, JJ Rousseau, ...
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• Digs -

  
  MickMathersARTblog — Authority: 127
  "The House" digital collage by Mick Mather "... our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them ..." - Henry David Thoreau
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• Men Are Born…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 480
  Men are born to succeed, not fail. Henry David Thoreau Men are born…
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