Thoreau walks and thinks
> "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." —Thoreau — Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) July 30, 2017 [https://twitter.com/outofedenwalk/status/891678538990047232]…
Gotta love this
http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/143166511057/very-good…
An Interesting Standard
> "What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new." #Thoreau [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thoreau?src=hash] #Quote [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quote?src=hash] — Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) February 20, 2015…
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 to me as good belongs to you. As familiar as these lines are, it took a…
Thoreau Celebrates the Winter Solstice
The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20141221/] pointed the way to this thought of Henry David Thoreau about winter. > In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from…
Music to the Last
> "Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear." #Thoreau [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thoreau?src=hash] #Quote [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quote?src=hash] — Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) November 8, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThoreauPage/status/531045162982862849] I wonder whether Thoreau…
The Power of the Night Sky
From this morning's New York Times [http://nyti.ms/VpINm7]— > To the Editor: > Re “The Solstice Blues” (Op-Ed, June 21): Perhaps the onset of nightly darkness should not be equated with melancholy; rather, it is the “illuminated world” intended to forestall it that sets us on…
Walking
Right after Thoreau's praise of "sauntering" [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/sauntering-with-thoreau/#main-content] come aricles praising walking from NPR [http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316325223/when-older-people-walk-now-they-stay-independent-later] and Fast Company [http://www.fastcoexist.com/3030756/now-doctors-are-prescribing-walks-in-the-park-to-get-us-off-our-butts] . I suppose that it was both my desire…