Walden

He went to Walden to live deliberately. Went to the woods to live deliberately, as he said, in 1845 and built a cottage on Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

He was only half a mile from the main road and he went into town all the time. And he was less than two miles from his main house.

And he ate dinner at Emerson's all the time. And his mother and his sister would bring him baked goods and donuts every weekend.

And that is not true. And I don't think he ever purported that to be true.

He spent his time writing, reading everything from the Greek philosophers to religious texts, whatever he could get his hands on. And then more than anything, walking in the woods, like spending his time out in nature.

He went to Walden to live deliberately. Went to the woods to live deliberately, as he said, in 1845 and built a cottage on Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

He wrote about the interesting aspects of being out there alone in his thoughts, in his books.

He spent his time writing, reading everything from the Greek philosophers to religious texts, whatever he could get his hands on.

And then more than anything, walking in the woods, like spending his time out in nature. And just enjoying it on its face, like finding the beauty in nature and seeing absolutely everywhere and letting it like increase his spirit and lift his spirits.

You live very simply, as Thoreau told us to. Thoreau told us that we should live very simple lives.

Star Wars, the novelization of Rise of Skywalker? Yes. It was written by Henry David Thoreau in 1855.

Star Wars, the novelization of Rise of Skywalker? Yes. It was written by Henry David Thoreau in 1855.

I don't know if you've heard about it, but it's a profound book. It was basically a guy who Walden Walden, W a l d e n and it's a classic book about this man in the 1800s who went lived on a lake outside of Boston, Walden pond and lived there by himself in a cabin with nothing almost and wrote about it. And he had this beautiful way of writing and describing nature and life and philosophy and it really also included a lot of Eastern philosophy embedded in it, which I didn't realize at the time. And so that book really impacted my childhood profoundly.

I wanted meaning and I wanted to live deeply. I was very influenced by Thoreau, who wrote about it quite beautifully. I was looking for transcendence.

Thorough was very famous for saying in Walden I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I hadn't lived

and if you read Walden I mean it's like a rhapsody of mindfulness he would stand you know in the pond up in Walden pond up to his nose and just watch the life of the skimmers and you know the plants and the birds and stuff

I started reading the raw on Walden Pond, I started reading which I had never read.

And it's like a thorough book with Oh my god, they make you read and I can't believe I don't think I'd ever read I didn't remember it anyway.

What is it called? It's called a Walden Pond.

Well, the pond on wall. Yeah, that was in Massachusetts, wasn't it? Yeah, I think or ham New Hampshire, New Hampshire should I should know this. I read a quarter.

And he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists. And so they were very for their time. They were like the woke guy, the transcendentalists were like, like, they were the woke guys for their time and, and girls.

I started reading the raw on Walden Pond. I started reading which I had never read.

What is it called? It's called a Walden Pond.

he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists.

And then he goes, but uh, but then he started talking about Irish people. And he was like, he said, he started talking shit about Irish people.

I never heard of that, that Nina, which meant no Irish need apply.

I started reading Walden which I had never read. And it's like a thorough book with Oh my god, they make you read and I can't believe I don't think I'd ever read I didn't remember it anyway.

It's called a Walden Pond. Well, the pond on wall.

he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists. And so they were very for their time. They were like the woke guy, the transcendentalists were like, like, they were the woke guys for their time and, and girls.

And then he goes, but uh, but then he started talking about Irish people. And he was like, he said, he started talking shit about Irish people.

except everyone should be allowed to have these freedoms, except of course the Irish.

Henry David Thoreau used brain rot in 1854 in his classic Walden.

I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

He says England is worried about potato rot, but quote, will not any endeavor to cure the brain rot which prevails so much more widely and fatally.

How Henry David Thoreau's analog lessons from Walden can be applied to your 21st century digital lifestyle.

How Henry David Thoreau's analog lessons from Walden can be applied to your 21st century digital lifestyle.

Sometimes after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired I have returned to the woods and partly with a view to the next day's dinner spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight. Communicating by a long, flaccant line with mysterious, not-turnal fishes which had their dwelling 40 feet below. It was very queer especially in dark nights when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cause marginal themes and other spheres to feel this faint jerk which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air as well as downward into this element which was scarcely more dense. Thus, I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.

And, you know, his other book is about this like canoe trip that he takes.

I'm reading this biography of thorough right now that's really interesting and I marked this passage i was going to talk to you about it so he's walking in the woods and conquered and he says how often have they stood on this very spot at this very hour here he here he's uh here he went on stood uh ta ta wahan or what is it ta ta ta one uh he said and there there is his arrowhead he said it was a mere rhetorical flourish the the gesture of a boy playing Indians but when he impulsively stooped to complete the scene and picked up the nearest bit of rock it turned out to be uh quote a most perfect arrowhead as sharp as if it just came from the hands of the Indian fabricator and he goes on to say that that his whole life uh thorough has this almost magical luck of always being able to find the best arrowheads which you know in his time obviously he's a he's a tad closer to uh you know people actually using them in those very spots but I just you know we think of thorough as this philosopher which he was and then there is this other part of him that's just like a boy who likes to play in the woods and that's what comes through in the philosophy so much