One really shouldn't read Thoreau while in Mexico- it leads to far too many thoughts of abandoning ship and leading a slower, simpler and thorough way of living.
"For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working abut six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."
No comments:
Post a Comment