Emerson, sounding an awful lot like today
> “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
Emerson
A collection of 8 posts
Patience
http://briefquotes.tumblr.com/post/141947076242/adopt-the-pace-of-nature-her-secret-is-patience
Nature
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.
Predating the Beatles
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
Books
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
Daydreaming
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