A patch of shade

The Marrow

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 did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike 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, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. – Thoreau

A patch of shade

I am convinced that all most of us truly desire is a patch of shade near a grassy field in which to love our family, eat with friends, warm ourselves at the fire and sing into the night.

That a good man can (and will) do good work and not fulfill this heart’s desire, is a shame and a crime. Are not sky and ground in abundance? And God made trees to grow with seed and water, and nothing else. What have we done? Where did we go astray? As the song goes, why do we work so hard, for things we do not want?

~ by justinhong on June 2, 2013.

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One Response to “A patch of shade”

“I am convinced that all most of us truly desire is a patch of shade near a grassy field in which to love our family, eat with friends, warm ourselves at the fire and sing into the night.”

Going in the quote book.

Sarah Povey said this on June 10, 2013 at 3:08 am | Reply

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