Walden

“Uh was Walden by Henry Theorough, which basically structured my vision of what life could and should look like and how to live.”

“uh the other I think main influence on my life was Henry thorough who was a transcendentalist lived in the 1800s wrote a book called Walden I if you've heard about it but it's a profound book”

“So the name Morningstar comes from the book Walden by Thoreau. It's the last line of that book, The Sun is But a Morningstar.”

“You know, I read it all the time. You know, not the whole thing, but I'll pick it up and kind of read parts of the conclusion.”

“If you had to give a book, and it can be Walden, to every 22-year-old graduating college, would that be the one?”

“you know the most men lead lives of quiet desperation the thorough line that I [ __ ] love so dearly It's such a great line”

“we said that most men live lives of quiet desperation”

“and I think trying that out you know building your house on the pond like the row mhm a hero of mine in high school is not just a simple exercise”

“my my favorite author in high school was Henry David Thoreau and Walden and you know March into a different drum that he was my hero”

“and so I started reading through on Walden Pond I started reading which I had never read and it's like a the row book oh my god they make you read”

“You know, that feeling that I have and I I think very much like Thoreau, you know, his writings and Walden that that when I'm in nature, that's my you know, when we're here.”

“that is also very similar to something that Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden which is we are in great haste to construct a magnetic Telegraph from Maine to Texas but Maine in Texas it may be have nothing important to communicate”

“one of the places where he was cutting ice from was Walden Lake and thorough noted the Ice King cutting ice in or wal Pond sorry Mayers um yeah that while he was writing his book Walden I think he appears in Walden”

“and so I started reading through on Walden Pond I started reading which I had never read and it's like a the row book 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 its called a Walden Pond Wald Walden Pond”

“throw was way ahead of his time we really need Walden Pond now”

“Well, I mean, I love Walden. And people say whatever they say, but but I just I love Thoreau and um more of his notebooks than not just Walden.”

“Well, I think Thoreau is like a very attractive figure for 21st century mind that feels overwhelmed by modernity and contemporary society, absolutism, everything else. Just not necessarily the real man who he was, but the idea of Walden, the idea of going into the woods, building a cabin, retreating from society, and then enriching yourself more.”

“Well, it's been a long time since I read Walden Pond am and the night Thoreau spent in jail”

“i think you know so i it is beyond me how this book entered the canon because all he does is just assert how superior he is to all of his neighbors”

“you say i am on record as believing that henry david throw was a self-important gas bag and walden is unreadable”

“there's a thematic root in what's happening in the 5 community that I see going all the way back to something like Walden right Henry Davidson Rose classic book about a guy who rejects the complexity of life in order to simplify and create a space for himself to understand what's truly important in the world”

“so the basic idea is you've got this friend of people advocating some sort of retreat from digital media and of course the Walden funding is a reference tool toros Walden so the idea of not necessarily literally retreating to a log cabin in the woods to meditate though a lot of people actually do some literal version of that”

“I'm gonna go old school and say the first chapter of thoreau's Walden where he's sitting in this little Hut in the woods and talking about what his expenses are and and figuring out that he doesn't need to be in the rat race at all if he doesn't want to”