Tag: thoreau
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Wednesday Words: Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” –Henry David Thoreau
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Edward Abbey
“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: H.D. Thoreau
I can’t think of a better quote with which to start, and sent the tone for, the new year. This won’t be the last time we hear from ol’ Henry this year. “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior.” –Henry David Thoreau
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Best Damn Quotes: Edward Abbey
“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “this far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but…
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DISOBEY
With all due respect to Shepard Fairey, whom I admired quite a lot: http://www.zazzle.com/henry_david_thoreau_disobey_shirt-235114453404536130
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National Poetry Month: Henry David Thoreau
Friendship by Henry David Thoreau I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to me a world, Sole meat and sweetest drink, And close connecting link Tween heaven and earth. I only know it is, not how or why, My greatest happiness; However hard I try, Not if I were to die,…
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Best Damn Quotes #12: Henry David Thoreau on Materialism
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. –Henry David Thoreau
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