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inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Beautiful. Classic. Inspiring. Sometimes boring.
"At present, I am a sojourner in civilized life again."
When I read that at the very beginning, I felt at home in this book. I have swam at Walden Pond and it is pure beauty and so magical and made it so much easier to connect with this dated book.
I loved parts of it, but it is long and sometimes it just felt like long ramblings of an oddball who loved the unconventional life even more than I do.
Favorite lines or ideas:
Chapter 1:
- "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else who I knew as well."
- A busy person cannot remember his own ignorance which is required for growth.
- "The cost of a thing is the amount, of what I will call, life which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run
Chapter 2:
- "I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary."
Chapter 3:
- "I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.
Chapter 6:
- This is the quote that I read on a sign in Henry David Thoreau's little house at Walden Pond that spurred me to put this on my 'to-read' list: "I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Chapter 9:
- Preferring to spend the most valued portion of the day outdoors, "for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly"
Conclusion:
-Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn thee old. Return to them. Things do not change. We change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
"At present, I am a sojourner in civilized life again."
When I read that at the very beginning, I felt at home in this book. I have swam at Walden Pond and it is pure beauty and so magical and made it so much easier to connect with this dated book.
I loved parts of it, but it is long and sometimes it just felt like long ramblings of an oddball who loved the unconventional life even more than I do.
Favorite lines or ideas:
Chapter 1:
- "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else who I knew as well."
- A busy person cannot remember his own ignorance which is required for growth.
- "The cost of a thing is the amount, of what I will call, life which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run
Chapter 2:
- "I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary."
Chapter 3:
- "I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.
Chapter 6:
- This is the quote that I read on a sign in Henry David Thoreau's little house at Walden Pond that spurred me to put this on my 'to-read' list: "I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Chapter 9:
- Preferring to spend the most valued portion of the day outdoors, "for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly"
Conclusion:
-Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn thee old. Return to them. Things do not change. We change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.