Jacob Helfman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-helfman
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Outdoor Conservation Book Club
— 374 members
— last activity Apr 07, 2026 07:42PM
This concept started as a personal challenge to myself to read more science books, but challenges are always more fun with friends! We'll read 1 book ...more
Bird Nerd Book Club
— 44 members
— last activity Aug 08, 2025 03:08PM
This group is for birders who read! Join in to discuss books that are bird-related. Could be field guides, novels, non-fiction, and more. There are lo ...more
Animal Book Club
— 625 members
— last activity Apr 10, 2026 08:07AM
Love animals? This is the place for you! We read and discuss animal-themed books, talk to authors and experts, hold giveaways! In ALDF's Animal Book C ...more
Spiritual Geeks
— 38 members
— last activity Dec 20, 2025 02:51PM
A Group dedicated to reading of Spiritual Books, Philosophy, Metaphysics to gain insight into various schools of thoughts fathoming the Truth and natu ...more
Novel, Coffee, Hipsters, Doo-wop, Rockabilly, Beatniks, Jazz, Classical or Stories with a Vintage feel
— 35 members
— last activity May 20, 2023 01:13AM
The title says it all lol but really, don't you sometimes like to escape from our harsh reality and judgmental society by reading short novels with el ...more
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