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We leave this back page to a continuing series of quotes from Henry David Thoreau's Walden,
paired with a Concord scene (in this case, one from Sweden which reminded the artist of Walden)...
both applicable to the season.
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| When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the
chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of
life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode
of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly
think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures
remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up
our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can
be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence
passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow,
mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would
sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you
cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people,
and new deeds for new.
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Artwork: Near Lake Siljan, Rättvik, Sweden. Colored pencil. ©1999 Kristina Joyce.
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