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#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, Journals

#HenryDavidThoreau #Thoreau #OneLife #CarpeDiem #ThePresent

“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, Journals

#HenryDavidThoreau #Thoreau #OneLife #CarpeDiem #ThePresrnt

"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing."
#thoreau #canoe

"#Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient." - Henry David #Thoreau

Today in Labor History August 14, 1846: The authorities jailed Henry David Thoreau for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of the Mexican War. Aside from this early act of American civil disobedience and war resistance, Thoreau also wrote, “Walden.” His essay, “Civil Disobedience,” influenced generations of activists and writers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Tolstoy, Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, Upton Sinclair and Martin Buber.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #thoreau #MartinBuber #proust #hemingway #gandhi #MartinLutherKing #activism #jail #antiwar #writer #author #books @bookstadon

Framed woodlands,
a Bob Ross cabin.
Whitman morning,
a Thoreau solitude.

ALARM CLOCK!

Ginsberg madness,
annual report.

#Poetry #MastodonPoetry #Poem #MastodonPoets #Poet #Writing #PoetsOfMastodon #Poets #WritersOfMastodon #Pinewood #PoetsSociety #Ginsberg #Thoreau #BobRoss #Whitman

The refurbished Concord Museum has the largest collection of #Thoreau memorabilia--over 250 pieces

http://www.concordcollection.org/mExhibit.aspx?rID=Thoreau%20Collection&dir=PERMANENT

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12 July 1817: birth of Henry David #Thoreau, in Concord #Massachusetts.

This profile from @librarycongress notes that he was seen as a failure in his lifetime, and that, although he is today venerated and best known as the philosopher of nature and the simple life, as well as a civil libertarian, he was also much more.

Did you know of his interest and expertise in #maps and #cartography?

https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/maps.html

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-12?loclr=eatod

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On Henry David Thoreau's birthday, this week's post on the Grammaticus blog presents his poem #Nature. 🌱🍃🌿

https://grammaticus.blog/2023/07/12/nature-by-thoreau/

#poetry #americanliterature #thoreau

"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 so far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look"

- #Thoreau

#quotes #philosophy

#bertrandGuest #desobeissancecivile #thoreau une conférence sur Thoreau au lycée

https://www.lycee-montesquieu.fr/blogs/cdi/232-grand-oral-de-montesquieu-replay-bertrand-guest

Editor @nathanlovestrees picks up his #writing pen (digitally) and returns to form with...

Only the World We Look For

https://thetaoist.online/only-the-world-we-look-for-18bc669a3181

#TravelWriting
#Thoreau
#Personal #Story
#Nature #Writing
#Perception

Just read a fascinating and stimulating essay by Leonard N. Neufeldt about Thoreau's Journal, its form, and its place in 19th century literary practices. Neufeldt had edited one of the Journals volumes in the early 1990s, I believe. The article was in one of those "Cambridge companions to" collections of essays, so I was surprised by both the depth of the argument and the quality of the prose (i.e., it was a pleasure to read). Neufeldt uses another scholar's description of _Week's_ form to note that _Week_ is the most like the journals in its form and content; then Neufeldt connects the journal to the early 19th century literary practice of *anthologizing* diversity and interest into a single volume as an early republic cultural practice that brings together disparate ideas, voices, thoughts, forms into a single shell without trying to reconcile them. They are unified by virtue of being anthologized, not by having same or similar form and content. (I riffed there at the end.) #Thoreau #Journal #19thCentury

Came across my notes from Walden today. This seems especially appropriate these days.

#thoreau #quote #walden #truth

That Matter To Which I Am Bound by @nathanlovestrees https://flip.it/VjcLdX

#Personal
#Philosophy
#Nature
#Thoreau
#Disability

That Matter To Which I Am Bound by @nathanlovestrees

https://thetaoist.online/that-matter-to-which-i-am-bound-7a2520773c80

#Personal
#Philosophy
#Nature
#Thoreau
#Disability

# A Fisiologia de Henry #Thoreau

Mais um belo artigo sobre Thoreau (expressão redundante, pois em Thoreau tudo é belo) :anitta:

"Interpretação filosófica que permite compreender a corporalidade em Thoreau como uma possibilidade experiencial capaz de produzir pensamento a partir de uma mística com a natureza; ou seja, no autor há uma filosofia que compreende o estar-no-mundo como uma experiência intimamente ligada com a natureza"

https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v10i2.43524

This week I’ve been reading some lit crit about non traditional / creative ways of writing academic prose and argument. Because of the nature of my #Thoreau piece — speculative theoretical/philosophical but grounded in text and history — and because I don’t have any pressing need or play the academic publishing game at this point — I’m really going crazy imaging the possible forms this Thoreau piece could take. Because _Week_ is itself an unexpected violation of form for its time (reviews excoriated it at the time and lit crit scholars through the years have more or less agreed it’s a formal mess, at best a reflection of Thoreau’s youthful inexperience when he wrote it and at worst a reflection of his lack of artful skill) a part of my argument is that the form of Week is actually queer, a refusal of expectation and order, purposeful and knowing on one hand, and perhaps unconscious on the other). Much of the pro-anti-formalism for academic writing is coming from queer scholars — So I’m enjoying playing.

What is the purpose of #emotions? What #value do they have?

https://thetaoist.online/the-nature-of-emotions-31285ef07c6a

https://thetaoist.online/the-nature-of-emotions-31285ef07c6a

#medium @blogging #writing @writing #emotions #thoreau #philosophy @philosophy