Thoreau

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[| Act I], [| Act II], [| Act III], [| Act IV], and [| Act V]. [|vocabulary] [| Walden, or Life In The Woods], by Henry David Thoreau //from// Resistance to Civil Government, by Henry David Thoreau ([|p. 1-4]) ([|p. 5-8]) =Read Thoreau: Quotations= > > > > > > > > > > > >
 * How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. -//Thoreau's Journal, August 19, 1851//
 * Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. //- __Walden__, "The Pond in Winter"//
 * What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? //Letter to H.G.O. Blake, May 20, 1860//
 * Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep [|pace] with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him [|step] to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. //- __Walden__, "Conclusion"//
 * In Wildness is the preservation of the world. - //From the essay "Walking"//
 * I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. //__Walden__, "Economy"//
 * Things do not change; we change." - //__Walden__//, "Conclusion"
 * Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. - //Letter to H.G.O. Blake, March 1848//
 * The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - //Journal//, August 5, 1851
 * I know of no more encouraging [|fact] than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular [|picture], or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. - //__Walden__, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"//
 * It is not enough to be industrious. So are the ants. The question is: What are we industrious about? - //Letter to Harrison Blake, November 16, 1857//
 * Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect [|view] of its plain." //- From Thoreau's __Natural [|History] of Massachusetts__//
 * … if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. - //__Walden__, "Conclusion"//
 * Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. //__Walden__, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"[|vocabulary]//