In the middle of the forest, this quiet guy has his thoughts.

For those #Thoreau fans out there, a photo of #walden #pond in #concord #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/walden-pond-redux-adam-gladstone.html

#buchstodon #naturewriting

Ich wusste immer schon, dass #Walden von #HenryThoreau literarisch überbewertet ist. Schon mal #DieWand von #MarlenHaushofer gelesen?

“Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.”

#Thoreau in #Walden

#dyads of #Walden

“… I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible”

“This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.”

#walden #pond in #concord: https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/walden-pond-in-black-and-white-adam-gladstone.html
Yes it's a #square #photo and #blackandwhitephotography

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and provincial, we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak without metaphor, which alone is copious and standard. Much is published, but little printed.”

#Thoreau in #Walden

The first recorded instance in English of ”Brain rot,” the 2024 Oxford University Press Word of the Year, is in the concluding chapter of Thoreau's #Walden. It first enters Thoreau's drafts of Walden in the F draft (1853-1854), 6th of the 7 in HM 924, the manuscript of Walden at the Huntington Library. It appears in paragraph 7 of “Conclusion.” To see the full manuscript page, search for image 1252 at https://digitalthoreau.org/manuscript-search-tool/ Track all of Thoreau's revisions to the Walden manuscript at https://digitalthoreau.org/fluid-text-toc/ #manuscripts #dh #words #dictionary

"The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course à la mode."

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Walden–Wallkill Rail Trail ✧

The Walden–Wallkill Rail Trail, also known as the Jesse McHugh Rail Trail, is a 3.22-mile (5.18 km) rail trail between the village of Walden and the hamlet of Wallkill. The two communities are located in Orange County and Ulster County, respectively, in upstate New York. The trail is...

#WallkillValleyRailroad #UlsterCounty #Walden #OrangeCounty #Wallkill #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden%E2%80%93Wallkill_Rail_Trail

This week's book:
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau

»Der Film erzählt die Geschichte von ›Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern‹ (1854) und dessen Autor, Henry David Thoreau. Es beleuchtet das einzigartige Leben des Philosophen und die Bedeutung seines Werks, das als visionäres, poetisches und politisches Ökosystem betrachtet wird. #Walden bleibt eine zeitlose Quelle der Inspiration für das Streben nach Einfachheit und Harmonie mit der Natur.« #Doku

https://leanderwattig.com/dokuliebe/2024/das-leben-in-den-waeldern/