When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau, from “Walking,” 1851, The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau (North Point Press,… Continue reading Henry David Thoreau
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is, “Look under foot.” You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place… Continue reading John Burroughs
The heart is forever inexperienced. — Henry David Thoreau, from “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849,” Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles, edited by Roderick MacIver (Huron Dance Press, 2006)
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. — Henry David Thoreau
The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. — Henry David Thoreau
The Vale of Soul-Making 