> “The last year has forced us all into politics... We do not breathe well. There is infamy in the air... [it] robs the landscape of beauty, and takes the sunshine out of every hour.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1851 — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) November 17, 2017 [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/…
http://briefquotes.tumblr.com/post/141947076242/adopt-the-pace-of-nature-her-secret-is-patience…
http://classicpenguin.tumblr.com/post/126339021699/ralph-waldo-emerson-nature-monday-first-lines So now I need to decide how to spend the rest of my Monday.…
Whitman makes his case boldly and enthusiastically in the first three lines of Song of Myself > I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. As familiar as these lines are, it took a…
In this, at least, I am like Emerson. > "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson #amreading [https://twitter.com/hashtag/amreading?src=hash] — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford)…
This post at The Philosopher's Mail [http://thephilosophersmail.com/perspective/the-importance-of-staring-out-the-window/] — > We tend to reproach ourselves for staring out of the window. You are supposed to be working, or studying, or ticking off things on your to-do list. It can seem almost the definition of wasted time.…
> "There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) August 18, 2014 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/statuses/501319258950098944]…
I found a recent entry celebrating silence [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/isolation-of-another-sort/] yesterday, and it reminded me of this. > " Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet." Ralph Waldo Emerson — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) January 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/statuses/423061672941473792]…