Today Mike and I mashed together Rev War (for him) and #bookhistory (for me) around #Concord #Massachusetts. So, besides sites on Battle Road, we toured Louisa May #Alcott 's Orchard House, saw a repro of H. D. #Thoreau 's house on #Walden Pond, and the 1870s interior of Concord Free Library.

5/ When I see this, then I am sure that I am not dreaming, but am awake to this world. I do not know any more terrene fact. It still carries the earth on its back. Its life is between the animal and vegetable—like a seed it is planted deep in the ground, and is all summer germinating. Does it not possess as much the life of the vegetable as the animal?”

#Thoreau 26–27 August 1854

“Now I go a-fishing and a-hunting every day, but omit the fish and the game, which are the least important part. I have learned to do without them.”

#Thoreau 26 January 1853

“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented.”

#Thoreau from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

#SundaySentence

“Away with the superficial and selfish phil-*anthropy* of men,—who knows what admirable virtue of fishes may be below low-water-mark, bearing up against a hard destiny, not admired by that fellow-creature who alone can appreciate it! Who hears the fishes when they cry? It will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries.”

#Thoreau from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Thanks to @johnbrowntypebeats for reminding me of this gem.

Which reminds me of a good saying:

"I don't argue with people that John Brown would've shot."

And something I need to reread:

"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71

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4/4 Its character will interest me, I trust, not its clothes and anatomy. I do not want it to eat. Acquaintance with it is to make my life more rich and eventful. It is as if a poet or an anchorite had moved into the town—whom I can see from time to time and think of yet oftener. Perhaps there are a thousand of these striped bream which no one had thought of in that pond—not their mere impressions in stone, but in the full tide of the bream life.”

#Thoreau 30 November 1858

“I have come to this hill to see the sun go down—to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.”

#Thoreau 5 June 1854

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

—Henry David Thoreau

#quotes
#Thoreau

A quotation from Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Letter (1860-05-20) to Harrison Blake

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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“Why should just these sights and sounds accompany our life? Why should I hear the chattering of black-birds, why smell the skunk each year? I would fain explore the mysterious relation between myself and these things. I would at least know what these things unavoidably are, make a chart of our life, know how its shores trend, that butterflies reappear and when, know why just this circle of creatures completes the world.”

#Thoreau 18 April 1852

“Observe all kinds of coincidences, as what kinds of birds come with what flowers.”

#Thoreau 18 April 1852

#SundaySentence

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2/2 and then begin, having a point d’appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time.”

#Thoreau from #Walden

#SundaySentence

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

#Thoreau from #Walden

Ever wonder what #thoreau 's cabin looked like?

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/thoreaus-cabin-adam-gladstone.html

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4/ “I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

#Thoreau from Resistance to Civil Government (or Civil Disobedience)

Cet été, Desartsonnant à l'oreille à l'affut des cabanes. Hommage à Thoreau

#ecoute #soundwalk #cabane #festival #listen #thoreau

“Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.”

#Thoreau from A Plea for Captain John Brown

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2567/pg2567-images.html

#JohnBrown