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"I
went to the woods because I wished 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. I did not wish to live
what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation,
unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the
marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that
was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a
corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms… We need the tonic of wildness… At
the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require
that all things be mysterious and unexplorable,
that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed
and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature…
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I
have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am
prepared to expect wonders…. We
must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest
sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of people to elevate their lives by conscious endeavor. It is something
to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make
a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the
very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can
do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts….
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity
in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward
another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." - Henry David Thoreau
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Springfield > CCT > Vienna > WAD > Custis > Home (28 miles)
McCoffee in Vienna because the indie coffee shop I know there did not appear to be open.
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| McCoffee Mocha in McVienna |
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