The Seattle Times has a page of Martin Luther King, Jr. speeches. The “What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” speech includes a quote from Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Actually, it turns out it’s a misquote — Wikipedia explains that: Build a better mousetrap, … Continue reading →
This was the entry from THIS DATE, FROM HENRY DAVID THOREAU’S JOURNAL yesterday, from January 7, 1852: We never tire of the drama of sunset. I go forth each afternoon and look into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset, … Continue reading →
Today’s post at Henry David Thoreau’s blog, September 18, 1860 begins with a lovely description of “the first unquestionable and conspicuous autumnal day” and ends with this gem: If you are not happy to-day you will hardly be so to-morrow. … Continue reading →
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets, 1868 … Continue reading →
Jill Badonsky’s The Awe-manac website had a great spring Emerson quote this week (and several other fun quotes as well): Earth laughs in flowers. –Ralph Waldo Emerson … Continue reading →
Emerson was quoted at the end of The Eating Well Diet (Book Review: The Eating Well Diet by Jean Harvey-Berino). There were numerous other quotes in that book, another thing I liked about it. Finish each day and be done with it. … Continue reading →
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau, Walden … Continue reading →
Henry’s blog (This Date, From Henry Thoreau’s Journal) had a lovely quote about books and libraries this week on March 16, 1852. I enjoyed thinking about him writing this 159 years ago, contemplating books written in 300 years prior to that. The … Continue reading →
Love today’s entry at This Date, From Henry David Thoreau’s Journal: P. M. – To Cliffs. Though it was a dry, powdery snow-storm yesterday, the sun is now so high that the snow is soft and sticky this afternoon. The … Continue reading →
What books in the circulating libraries circulate? How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying … Continue reading →