Status Updates From วอลเดน (Walden)

THIS is what I’m looking for. Thoreau hits the nail on the head. It’s not real how much I’m in love with this book already. Idk how I’m gonna annotate every fucking page? So much to walk away with and to edify life with.
+ environmental conservation?!! it’s beautiful. Perfect timing

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation

I find it interesting that today’s illiteracy problem dates back to the 1840s when reading was THE entertainment. While Thoreau’s town is filled with the well-educated still they “are under-bred and low-lived and illiterate”(Thoreau 101). Sounding like a true book snob he groups actual illiterate individuals with people “who has learned to read only for what is for children and feeble intellects” (101)

Ich kann mir vorstellen dass manch einfältiger Mensch sich durch einiges was hier geschrieben steht angegriffen oder auf den Schlips getreten fühlt; Es bedarf wirklich tiefer Einsicht, ehrlicher Naturverbundenheit und einer gewissen bodenständigen Intelligenz um Thoreau auf Augenhöhe begegnen zu können.