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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

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funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

I roll my eyes at him every other page, but my guy could write a sentence

The illusion of this book was shattered when I learned his mum used to bring him sandwiches
reflective slow-paced
informative slow-paced

“By turns our purity inspires  and our impurity casts us down.”
inspiring reflective slow-paced

"I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attract me, - not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less, - not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me."

The thing that makes this book so special to me is how one second Thoreau is talking about wood and birds and then he effortlessly gets deeply philosophical and spiritual. The communion between the mundane and the depths of humans, nature, society and history, all surrendered to the goodness of a universal force.