There are so many passages I love from Walden..This excerpt is for the Now.
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.It may be translated into every human language, and not only be read but also breathed from all human lips;-not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself……….
…Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them.” ……
- Henry David Thoreau (Pg.67)
Posted by seinfeld on May 5, 2009 at 5:30 am
Lovely… Haven’t read Walden yet, though the excerpt from Dead Poets Society remains one of my favourite to date
And where did the blind men and the elephant disappear to?
Posted by apitcherfullofmirth on May 5, 2009 at 6:47 am
Dint like it on second thoughts..put delete.