Status Updates From Walden

La ansiedad y el esfuerzo incesante en algunos constituyen una enfermedad incurable. Está en nuestra naturaleza el exagerar la importancia del trabajo que hacemos y sin embargo ¡cuanto es lo que dejamos sin hacer”

Una característica de la sabiduría es no hacer cosas desesperadas

Como si se pudiera matar el tiempo sin dañar la eternidad

La mayoría de los hombres vive vidas de tranquila desesperación. Lo que llamamos resignación no es más que el una confirmación de la desesperanza

“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or a sorrel, or a horse flower, or a humble bumble bee. I am no more lonely than theMill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.”

I like how Thoreau writes so much and looks closely about all the little things in life like bubbles in the pond under ice and the animals in the trees. You can tell he spent a lot of time appreciating and thinking about these things and it seems like something people don’t do as much these days.

I like his point about an oil and wine cellar so it will be pleasant to expect hard times. Setting aside something to enjoy in hard times I like that idea. I feel like there is a parallel in modern life.

Very interesting discussion of the ant war. His writing of the loon is also very silly