Quotes from Walden
"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."
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
"The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still a sojourner in nature... we now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."
"It appeared to me that for a like reason men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the Spring of Springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life."
I wrote these quotes down before we left and brought them with me as a reminder of the spirit of my hike. I've already reread them a few times.
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