Thoreau Speaks

How appropriate is it that this appeared on the Vintage Anchor site [http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/84874369261/what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-havent-got-a] the same day a rather ominous National Climate Assessment [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/videos/#101982] was released? > "What is the use of a house if you haven’t…

Sauntering with Thoreau

> "It is a great art to saunter." #Thoreau [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Thoreau&src=hash] #Quote [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Quote&src=hash] — Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) April 6, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThoreauPage/statuses/452917024411639808] Ths has more than one level of…

Thoreau on Useful Ignorance

> Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage…