transcendentalist

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
- Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862]

simple living

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau

"None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
- Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings."
- Henry David Thoreau

on bullfrogs

"Motionless and indifferent as they appear, they are ready to leap upon their prey at any instant."

- Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862] died at 44 almost unknown.

Image source here.

success

"To laugh often and much."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]

An earlier refernce to Emerson here.

Words

Photo: Quote from Henry David Thoreau on Library Way in New York City.

An earlier reference to Thoreau here.

Pond

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862] in Walden, published in 1854.