Journal+Thirteen

Journal #13 on May 6th, 2009 Bolf’s 363 Explain the following quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Connect them to the concepts of Transcendentalism. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. //Walden// Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. //Walden// In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.