tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583967256794233997.post3651430049372763862..comments2023-10-02T14:56:11.695+11:00Comments on The Duck Herder: boldly onUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583967256794233997.post-19444874809532093952007-12-28T19:40:00.000+11:002007-12-28T19:40:00.000+11:00Hello Lucy C and Rhonda Jean!Thank you very much. ...Hello Lucy C and Rhonda Jean!<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much. Rhonda Jean I recognise that quote from your old blog! (somewhere in there....) I love it. <BR/><BR/>I think I am going to have to find a copy of Walden Pond. <BR/><BR/>giddy up!The Duck Herderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12804351827909380328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583967256794233997.post-52739177520174433982007-12-28T08:50:00.000+11:002007-12-28T08:50:00.000+11:00Thoreau has many answers. He lead me by the hand ...Thoreau has many answers. He lead me by the hand when I first read Walden Pond. Although he's essentially against the ownership of land, he wrote this: "Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." <BR/><BR/>And then this: "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; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan- like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience..." <BR/><BR/>Wagons Ho!Rhonda Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00175785349529109084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583967256794233997.post-11490303327874471422007-12-26T18:32:00.000+11:002007-12-26T18:32:00.000+11:00Boldly on I say too.Very exciting.Boldly on I say too.<BR/>Very exciting.Lucy Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06627668227610253358noreply@blogger.com