#walden pond
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…
Henry David Thoreau
|| Walden Pond, Concord, MA
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清浄暫しとどむ by Yuri Yorozuna
Among the forerunners of Transcendentalism, a movement according to which the divine pervades all of humanity and nature alike, 19th century philosopher-poet and woodsman-ecologist Henry David Thoreau left behind a vital contemplative legacy resembling the intensive retreats undertaken by Buddhist meditators.
Continued→https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/walden-pond.html
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Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945),“Thoreau Fishing (at Walden Pond),” 1936, oil on hardboard, 38½ x 33 inches; private collection. [source]
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star
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