Thursday, January 6, 2011
the infinite extent of our relations
"Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." --HD Thoreau, Walden
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"Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are l...
this also reminds me of John Muir's quotation, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
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