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Manuscrito del diario de Henry David Thoreau, 1837

"En el hielo de Walden hay hermosos cristales de hojas"

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Diaries of Henry David Thoreau with pencils made by J. Thoreau & Co., the Thoreau family pencil factory.

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Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau walked the earth gently from July 12, 1817 - 1862. He lies in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord Mass., alongside Hawthorne and Emerson… Before he died Thoreau exclaimed: “Now comes good sailing!”

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” — Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)

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Thoreau at Walden Pond (1932)

Oil on canvas, 58 1/8 × 70 in.

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I have been re-reading HD Thoreau's Walden (1854) - starting at the very beginning with the chapter "Economy". (I've been reading this book, on-and-off, for fifty years!)

First, I was struck afresh by the muscular brilliance of the writing - this is prose of the highest level!

But secondly, it struck me how modern is the expressed perspective of Thoreau. He writes from the position of mainstream modern alienation, one which looks-out upon the world and deliberates how to get the best deal from our interactions.

And Thoreau's idea of a life-well-lived is rooted almost wholly in feelings; in his own responses to ideas and situations. And, much like New Age spirituality; Thoreau seeks to engineer his environment, and himself, such as to achieve the highest possible level of personal gratification - and minimize the inevitable degree of personal suffering. _Bruce Charlton