I liked what Thoreau says about morning. Like he says, I think there is something special about morning when it's quiet and the world is just how it is, without people or cars or anything we've contributed to it. This is kind of a simple blog post, but I think that if I were to take something from Thoreau's lessons that he wanted people to learn from and take into their lives, I would try to get up early more often or get up to see the sun rise and go be out in nature in the morning and experience the freshness and silence that's there. I think it'd be refreshing and a good way to remind myself of the peacefulness of life in the midst of all the busyness and rushing we're constantly a part of.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Thoreau's Walden
"The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night...Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself...Morning brings back the heroic ages." -Thoreau in Walden
I liked what Thoreau says about morning. Like he says, I think there is something special about morning when it's quiet and the world is just how it is, without people or cars or anything we've contributed to it. This is kind of a simple blog post, but I think that if I were to take something from Thoreau's lessons that he wanted people to learn from and take into their lives, I would try to get up early more often or get up to see the sun rise and go be out in nature in the morning and experience the freshness and silence that's there. I think it'd be refreshing and a good way to remind myself of the peacefulness of life in the midst of all the busyness and rushing we're constantly a part of.
I liked what Thoreau says about morning. Like he says, I think there is something special about morning when it's quiet and the world is just how it is, without people or cars or anything we've contributed to it. This is kind of a simple blog post, but I think that if I were to take something from Thoreau's lessons that he wanted people to learn from and take into their lives, I would try to get up early more often or get up to see the sun rise and go be out in nature in the morning and experience the freshness and silence that's there. I think it'd be refreshing and a good way to remind myself of the peacefulness of life in the midst of all the busyness and rushing we're constantly a part of.
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Megan,
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the sort of response I was hoping to evoke on Monday! If you get up earlier one day a week and take the long way around to the Commons for breakfast, Thoreau will have done a great deal of good.
LDL