oh sorry guys for not saying who he is. Any way thats the right guy
he wrote about going back to nature and what not. He is in the same class of people who wrote rip van winkle (i enjoyed that story) and the white socks series. Ever see last of the mohecans? that is the last book in the white socks series. they are all good books and i enjoyed reading them.
more sayings
"what is the hardest task in the world? to think"
so far as man thinks he is free. thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
Tragedy and comedy always go hand in hand.
I gladly pay the rent of my house because i therewith get the horizon and the woods which i pay no rent for. for daybreak and evening and night i pay no tax
popularity is for dolls a hero cannot be popular
keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence
good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose
the religion that is afraid of science dishonours god and commits suicide.
if a man...can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods
the invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common
if the world accepted only "normal" visions nothing new would ever be created
ralph has lots more his works are a little hard to read but i think most of us would like some of the other transcendentalists
ben banned i liked jim better when he was alive