How To Use Thoreau In A Sentence
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
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That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established.
The Last Harvest
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He also visits a ship steering school in Port Revel, France, and he and his son-in-law recreate a canalboat trip taken by Henry David Thoreau and his brother John in 1839.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
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Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. Henry David Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau wrote that one sees the world more clearly if one looks at it from an angle.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
Commonplace
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Along these lines, Thoreau sees that he can rejoice that his beans are food for the woodchucks as much as for people, and that the growth of the weeds is as important as that of the beans.
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Thoreau was wedded to Nature not so much for her beauty as for delight in her high companionableness.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
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Many young people go through a Walden phase, believing that Thoreau and, in "Self-Reliance," Emerson saw through to the realities of life, past the "phoniness" that so obsessed Holden Caulfield.
Love Books? You’re In The Right Place.
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Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.
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Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't.
A Different Stripe:
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Should Thoreau be reckoned a prophet of contemporary ecocentrism?
An Exchange on Thoreau
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau realized that the land had been cleared about 15 years previous to him moving there, and there were still a lot of stumps stuck in the ground.
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau talks a little about how he misses the cock crowing, along with other domestic sounds.
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When they go boldly into the wilderness, they ought to carry in their backpacks Thoreau, London, and Tolstoy.
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I tell you I forgot it, sitting there on the edge of that swan-skin robe and listening and looking at the most wonderful woman that ever stepped out of the pages of Thoreau or of any other man's book.
The Night-Born
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Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and such men could not be artists in the fiction sense -- that their efforts were pathetic, when they tried to enflesh their literary efforts in story form.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
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Even in the 1840s the pond was visited frequently by fishermen and woodcutters, and Thoreau could hear the rumble of the Boston-to-Fitchburg railroad as it passed along the western shore.
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Henry David Thoreau described the song of one species as ‘a slumberous breathing,’ an ‘intenser dream.’
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There he read the writings of Thoreau, which gave him many ideas about freedom.
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I almost got a Thoreau book, but there was that sniggle of guilt poking me in the eye.
Delayed Gratification « So Many Books
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The future," said veteran civil rights campaigner Bayard Rustin, "lies in casting not just a ballot, what Thoreau called 'a piece of paper merely ', but the total vote -- the human person against injustice.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Thoreau maintained a close relationship with his brother up until the latter's death of lockjaw following a freak accident.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry David Thoreau
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau in the context of early national Anglophobia in
Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau thought he was an exceptional man, a philosopher of great faith, and an optimist.
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What Thoreau did not overlook was his neighbors' reluctance to put their antislavery sentiments into action.
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Thoreau lists Goose Pond, which is an inlet in the Concord River, and White Pond.
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The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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We know he was interested in American literature, for he wrote an essay each on Whitman and Thoreau.
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Henry David Thoreau
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Civil disobedience is something else entirely, but even Thoreau would have stood in disbelief at what some of these people do.
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But what Thoreau was least good at was deciding how best to live within the complicated entanglements of other individual people.
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Thoreau went graping in October to harvest delicious concord grapes.
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History paints a vivid picture of disparity and dissimilarity between Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.
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The foxes in winter remind Thoreau of rudimental, burrowing men.
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A time when so much was on the line for so many yet amidst all the turmoil the culture reawakened (green again) to promises of another better, perhaps “older” way to live: the ancient message of sanity and sanctity re-connected by the Transcendentalist transformers of our time (Kerouac, Ginsburg Snyder, et. al) to the greater oversoul humming and glowing in the works of Emerson and Thoreau.
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Thoreau's ideal of this place, its purity and changelessness, contrasted with and to some extent contested his contemporaries' exploitation of the pond and woods as natural resources.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience
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Eating meat is disagreeable to Thoreau's imagination, and his distaste of it is instinctual.
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Thus, Thoreau endeavors to dismiss all but essential elements.
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What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau's collection of essays reflects the philosophy of American Transcendentalism in practice.
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Thoreau begins his quest with a retreat from society.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
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With the quality of Rolly's reports, traditional construction methods are well documented, and his accounting is as careful as Thoreau's, although not as frugal.
Pictures of My Construction Project
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau
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On alcohol, Thoreau wrote: “I would fain keep sober always … I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor … Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
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Through metaphor and symbolism, Thoreau discusses the importance of nature.
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In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books.
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A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation “a race of tit-men.”
Archive 2006-11-01
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Paul Theroux: Thor-ew (which, incidentally, is different to Henry Thoreau which is pronounced like 'thorough')
An Interview with Paul Theroux
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
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Leo Marx's critique of recent attention to Henry David Thoreau's late-life "ecocentric" turn [NYR, June 24 and July 15] makes strong, important claims not only about Thoreau's life and writings but also about the proper way to understand literature (particularly literature of a "pastoral" sort) and the proper direction of the whole environmental movement to boot.
An Exchange on Thoreau
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Thoreau is refreshed by hearing the whip-poor-will, brown-thrasher, veery, wood-pewee, chewink, and other birds at the beginning of May.
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By contrast, Thoreau's solitude gave him an observant intimacy with nature that enriched his relation to others.
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It was Thoreau's ideas that shaped the political strategies of Mahatma Gandhi and later King.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
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These dance sequences are occasionally punctuated by hallucinatory images such as Thoreau wandering into a convenience store along with his forest dancers (who are partial to a Crystal Lite machine in what may be the strangest product placement captured on film) or an African American gentleman chained up in the bed of a truck, only to be released later while his captor is buried up to his neck on a beach.
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Martin, in quoting this, notes that the last “entire earth” of the sort Thoreau had in mind had disappeared from the North American continent some 13,000 years earlier, with the disappearance of native species such as mastodons and giant sloths.
The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson
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But there are times – and in her eyes smoldered up that hungry yearning I've mentioned — 'there are times when I wish most awful bad for that Thoreau man to happen along.'
The Night-Born
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As regards his literary craftsmanship, Lowell charges him only with having revived the age of _concetti_ while he fancied himself going back to a preclassical nature, basing the charge on such a far-fetched comparison as that in which Thoreau declares his preference for "the dry wit of decayed cranberry-vines and the fresh Attic salt of the moss-beds" over the wit of the Greek sages as it comes to us in the
The Last Harvest
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Among these visitors were people from the poorhouse, and the pauper, who was ‘deficient in intellect,’ but who Thoreau thought to be in better shape than many people who were much smarter, because he knew and told the truth.
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Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau begins his quest with a retreat from society.
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
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Because Thoreau, the railroad, and woodcutters have encroached on Walden, White Pond is the gem of all these.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Sax liked Thoreau's explanation for the word saunter: from à la Sainte Terre, describing pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land.
Languagehat.com: SAUNTER.
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Still, when Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson eulogized him as a failure, albeit beloved: ‘He seemed born for greatness and I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.’
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We are speaking of Thoreau's case for calluses on writers: "I find incessant labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, the best method to remove palaver out of one's style.
Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)
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Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855.
The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau knew his position was open to criticism.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau
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And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described, -- not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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Thoreau, consequently, moves toward the other end of the scale.
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau took this to heart when he sequestered himself at Walden Pond and wrote Walden as a response to his experiences.
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Viola's uncommon cultural thirst was nurtured in the midst of social convulsions; her imagination and intellect stimulated by philosophers and writers, such as Plato and Thoreau.
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Thoreau discovered that the level of the pond fluctuates by about five feet over a period of 25 years.
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The famous Unitarian and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden wrote, "Things do not change; we change.
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By contrast, rural life has been stubbornly fixed in our collective imaginations for a long time, from Jefferson to Thoreau to even Hemingway, an American expression of the Edenic, pre-lapsarian state.
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Thoreau believed that his actions were in the spirit of American institutions.
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On the very same day I found books by Thoreau, Petronius, and Bernard Shaw, each for same unprincely price.
Whitehead and the modern word
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. Henry David Thoreau
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Walden is held together by a "controlling principle," and to think of it as a constellation of trajectories that can pull against as well as with each other seems arbitrary and confusing ” notwithstanding Thoreau's notorious paradoxicalness.
An Exchange on Thoreau
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In addition, Thoreau notices circular heaps of stones about six feet in diameter that sit on the pond bottom.
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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And, cognizant of Thoreau's belief that "In wildness is the preservation of the world;
Montana To Consider Bill Protecting Fish Habitat and Forest Jobs
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau had made the Maine woods, along with Walden, a symbol of freedom from the cares of city life.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
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I hesitated a little, but as he pressed me, and would have an answer, I said that I did not feel quite so sure of his kindly judgment on Thoreau's books; and it so chanced that I used the word "acrid" for lack of a better, in endeavoring to express my idea of Jerrold's way of looking at men and books.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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But what Thoreau leaves unsaid is that building castles in the air -- having a unique, inspiring, important vision -- is itself incredibly hard work.
Justin Snider: Building Castles in the air: Visionary Leadership
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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In 2005, the Thoreau Institute kept a chronologic photographic record of some areas of the grounds around their offices.
A Different Stripe:
