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photo by ScenicBoys

"We cannot adequately appreciate this aspect of nature if we approach it with any taint of human pretense. It will elude us if we allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and this Other. To apprehend it, we cannot be naked enough."

Henry David Thoreau, 

(In wildness is the preservation of the world)

AOM Meditaton: Henry David Thoreau

  by Eugen Taube

Thanks to our Friend, David, for sending us this beautiful art

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Thanks to a Friend from Canada

For reminding me of this quote

He inspired me to create this post

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"Simplify your life.

Don’t waste the years struggling

for things that are unimportant.

Don’t burden yourself with possessions.

Keep your needs and wants simple

and enjoy what you have.

Don’t destroy your peace of mind

by looking back, worrying about the past.

Live in the present.

Simplify!"

~Henry David Thoreau

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Here's a short 6 minute video on Thoreau

That I found to be very good

(for a short 6 minute video on Thoreau)

I hope you will spend the 6 minutes

And get to know Thoreau a little better

Perhaps it will inspire you to 

Search out and learn more about Thoreau

Find out why He is one of my Heroes

~*~

Henry David Thoreau

by 

The School of Life

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/JJL9S0J8-4k

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"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"

~Henry David Thoreau

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“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 indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” 

~Henry David Thoreau

(Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

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In the Park of the Chateau Noir, (1900) by Paul Cezanne

Thanks to a Friend for sending us this beautiful art

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

~Neil Gaiman

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Simplify your life. 

Don’t waste the years struggling 

for things that are unimportant. 

Don’t burden yourself with possessions. 

Keep your needs and wants simple 

and enjoy what you have. 

Don’t destroy your peace of mind 

by looking back, worrying about the past. 

Live in the present. 

Simplify!

~Henry David Thoreau

Daily Dose of Naturism: 121417

photographer unknown

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"We cannot adequately appreciate this aspect of nature if we approach it with any taint of human pretense. It will elude us if we allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and this Other. To apprehend it, we cannot be naked enough."

~Henry David Thoreau

(In wildness is the preservation of the world)