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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to … Continue reading →

In wildness is the preservation of the world… Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and … Continue reading →

Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of … Continue reading →

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I only went for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out I found I was really going in.

The Earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of and what we live from, and we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. There is an uncanny resemblance between … Continue reading →

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the Earth and the old … Continue reading →