Status Updates From Walden; or, Life in the Woo...

Bored, kind of annoyed by the presumption that anyone can find a rich friend to lend them spare land in this economy. I'm lucky to sit in a park, I saved for 4 years to take a year off and camp in free national parks in a 20 year old van and even then I was picking fruit to sustain myself.
Appreciate the impact of civil disobedience and that he took this time to also write that. Lucky for the graphic novel of this.

“Whatever my own practise may be, I have not doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilised.”

Among Thoreau’s realisations as he lived among nature was the value of a diet that caused no harm to other creatures. ♥️🍃

“My furniture, part of which I made myself,- and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account,- consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.”

“[Y]et I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”