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There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
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Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, "Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea that it was lost. Paradise is always in the past." The title Goat Song is a literal rendering of the Greek word traghoudhia, tragedy. Reading it, I was reminded of Leo Marx's analysis of Thoreau's Walden. In The Machine in the Garden, Marx names Thoreau a tragic, if complex pastoralist. After failing to make an agrarian living raising beans for commercial trade (although his intent was always more allegorical than pecuniary), Thoreau ends Walden by replacing the pastoral idea where it originated: in literature. Paradise, Marx concludes, is not ultimately to be found at Walden Pond; it is to be found in the pages of Walden.

Heather Paxson, The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America
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Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.

Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood
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Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

Henry David Thoreau
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It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Henry David Thoreau
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Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
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As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau, The Portable Thoreau
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I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau
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