retreating to a rustic cabin at Walden Pond in the Massachusetts woods for two years to ruminate on nature and philosophy, but Thoreau wasn’t a her- mit or a cranky misanthrope. He was,in a word, a “questioner,” says Jeffrey S. Cramer, curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute...
My love of hiking started when I was young. My grandfather was a lover of nature and he used to drag me on long walks while explaining the world around us. Like many, I rebelled as a teenager and stopped hiking. I was late in my twenties before I start a
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds. —Mason Cooley 0 The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not ...
During the trip to the camp, Elie experienced how quickly humans can give in to despair and resort to violence. One of the prisoners on the train... Learn more about this topic: Dehumanization in Night by Elie Wiesel | Examples & Quotes ...
At the beginning of my writing career, I went to the AWP conference in Chicago, eager to learn and excited to start making connections with other writers. There were 10,000 other writers there. That was one conference years back. Back when I first wrote this post, in 2012, the amount ...
Do you know that Tiger Woods trained in the rain at midnight? When his friend saw him hitting golf balls at 3 AM and asked him about it, he said, “It doesn’t rain very often in Northern California. It’s the only chance I have to practice hitting in the rain.” You can read ...
At the start of World War I in 1914, the British Army did not have forces as large as Germany or France. Therefore, they called for volunteers to join. As the war went on, fewer and fewer volunteers enlisted and the Military Service Act was enacted in 1916. The act forced single men...
Then he accepted Christ, and when the Civil War broke out, he went to the front and laid down his life fighting for his country. Another night, Mr. Moody got home and had gone to bed before it occurred to him that he had not spoken to a soul that day about accepting Christ. "...
Years ago, I did the same with the Scriptures that pointed to Jesus (Yeshua). After much study, I was convinced that the Jewish Bible and the New Testament were correct and that Jewish tradition was wrong. Jesus (Yeshua) was/is the Messiah and is Deity and is fully God incarnate....
still haunt me whenever I think of the book.Singing of the Slaves:The slaves selected to go to the Great House Farm, for the monthly allowance for themselves and their fellow-slaves, were peculiarly enthusiastic. While on their way, they would make the dense old woods, for miles around, ...