The partridge loves peas, but not those that go with her into the pot. Which was good, because I was being pretty frantic about trying to finish the unit plan on time for my graduate class’s deadline. They are the sublimest recreation of the intellect. Reading this quote again brought me back to mindfulness. As he observed: “Most men live lives of quiet desperation.” He did not want to be one of those men, and in my opinion, he succeeded. He cultivated a mindfulness practice and wrote about it when his peers were, by and large, farmers trying desperately to get ahead financially.
Thoreau is an American who dared to be different, and we can learn from his example today. I love this quote because it reminds me to get outdoors and experience everything the world has to offer. In planning a unit for September, I came across this beloved Thoreau quote: I think if Thoreau were alive today, he would blog. Thoreau was a writer, but he was also many other things: teacher, philosopher, pencil maker, eccentric Concord resident, nature-observer, travel writer, as well as one of the first known anthropologists (of sorts) to respectfully study and learn from Native Americans. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy.
It is a thorough process, this war with the wildernessbreaking nature, taming the soil, feeding it on oats. In Wildness is the preservation of the World.'Walking'. Recently, I took a course at Walden Pond in Concord, MA called “The Walden Woods Project.” Through the course, I became very familiar with Henry David Thoreau, the American author who, in the 1840s lived in a small cabin by a pond in Concord for two years while writing his best-known work: Walden. In short, all good things are wild and free.'Walking'. Photo from my class at Walden Pond – Concord, MA I love this quote because it reminds me to get outdoors and experience everything the world has to offer.
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