1. “To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a...
1. “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the...
Yes today we are back to THOREAU! ENJOY! 1. “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves...
Yes we are back to my new mentor: HENRY DAVID THOREAU: 1. “The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only...
If you think I LIKE Thoreau then you are 100% CORRECT! 1. “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest...
Sorry I have not been able to do this sooner. We just have had the Arctic Express barrel through western North Carolina for the past several days taking us to below ZERO where I am. I had to quickly...
You might wonder why I selected to share for next several days what the great American writer Henry David Thoreau has to say in his classic Walden. I was blown away when I started reading it! Thoreau...