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It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)

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nathanlovestrees 8h ago

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it.”

#Thoreau in #Walden

nathanlovestrees 1d ago

“Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?”

#Thoreau 24 Dec 1841

nathanlovestrees 3d ago

"We find ourselves in a world that is already planted, but is also still being planted as at first."

#Thoreau

nathanlovestrees 3d ago

The Ken Burns Thoreau documentary airs tomorrow and Tuesday on PBS. Here’s a clip about his work with the Underground Railroad:

https://pbs.org/video/thoreau-begins-to-work-with-the-underground-railroad-qauraa

#Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau | Thoreau Begins to Work with the Underground Railroad | Episode 3

Thoreau participates in the Underground Railroad and gives a speech on what it means to be free.

Michael Carnell 6d ago

Can't wait to see this. "Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance, yet his life has been obscured by myth. The author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, he was brilliant but flawed, idealistic but opinionated." #UU #UUA #Minimalism #Thoreau #Nature #Nature

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Icarosity Mar 25

Most of the time I think I would be better off living without television but here is a thing I would buy a television for if I didn't have one. #Thoreau is one of a very few authors who made the foundation of who I am. When I read Walden in my teens it cracked the world open for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/25/henry-david-thoreau-ken-burns-don-henley-documentary-pbs-walden-george-clooney

‘His perspective is so relevant’: the A-listers bringing Henry David Thoreau back to screen

Ken Burns’ new three-part documentary shows why it’s not too late for us to learn from the great naturalist

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Alethos Mar 24

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“Más que el amor, el dinero o la fama, deseo la verdad. Me senté a una mesa donde había manjares exquisitos y vino en abundancia, rodeado de comensales obsequiosos, pero carente de verdad y sinceridad. Me alejé de esa mesa inhóspita sintiendo todavía hambre. La hospitalidad era tan fría como el hielo”.

#Thoreau lo dejó muy claro

Brian Mar 23

“Nature in high tide brings her mirror to its foot and makes it visible.”

~ Henry David Thoreau
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