Thoreau, Walden (1854; Chapter 13 and Chapter 18)

Thoughts on Wood and Life

"Ah, many a tale their color told!" (para 2)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/09/more_color.html

"Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but a chemic process" (para. 19).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/fire_is_your_friend.html

"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought." (Thoreau Chapter 18 par. 2)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/09/in_1492_columbus_sailed_the_oc.html

Direct Your Eye Inward

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/09/act_it_even_if_its_not_real.html

After a re-read, I feel that I can better expand on acting versus being. - but really, you are alone and change takes time.

"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?" (Thoreau, ch 18 paragraph 7)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/brain-rot.html

"The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell." (Thoreau) [18] Chapter 18
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_thoreau_ch_13_18_water.html

"The wasps came by thousands to my lodge in October, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows within and on the walls overhead, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. Each morning, when they were numbed with cold, I swept some of them out, but I did not trouble myself much to get rid of them; I even felt complimented by their regarding my house as a desirable shelter."
~paragraph 3, chapter 13

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/09/wasp_filled_home.html

Arrogant hippie or smart hippie?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/09/arrogant_or_brilliant_or_hippi.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/09/thoreau_false_romantic.html

Warming The House at The End

"The wasps came by thousands to my lodge in October, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows within and on the walls overhead, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. Each morning, when they were numbed by cold, I swept some of them out, but I did not trouble myself much to get rid of them; I even felt complimented by their regarding my house as a desirable shelter. They never molested me seriously, though they bedded with me." (ch. 13 - 3)

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." (Thoreau Ch 18 Para 5)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/10/just_do_it.html