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Naturalist Henry David Thoreau is noted for his comment that most people "live lives of quiet desperation." In an effort to avoid that existence, Thoreau lived alone from 1845 to 1847 in the now-famous woods of Walden Pond, Massachusetts. In 1854, he published his experiences in the book entitled Walden. Thoreau wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear..." The thought-provoking truths contained in Thoreau's writing have remarkable application many years later. Rather than living in quiet desperation we would do well to recognize, as did Thoreau, that "living is so dear."  Quote this article on your site | Views: 341 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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