"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Walden Pond, Concord, MA
“[T]he cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Yesterday, my friends and I decided to make a short excursion to Walden Pond, the inspiration and home of literary geniuses Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Concord, MA, hiding within layers of evergreen forest and around the winding bends of cracked roads, you will find Walden. There, you will see Thoreau's humble cabin by the water. Your eyes can explore the pond and the trees and the hills that surround it from the window over Thoreau's desk. And you will understand in an instant, something about the light, the sharp winter air and the barren branches of hibernating woods possess a rich heaviness despite their emptiness. As you walk to the water through the trees and the brush, as you feel your feet begin to sink into the snow as it blends with the earth, the place through which you walk goes with you. It sits on your shoulders and it takes you by both hands, pulling you forward--just as it did to Emerson, to Thoreau--begging you to listen and to look and to feel the life through which you walk.
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
All photos taken on an iPhone 5S and edited with VSCO Cam.
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