The City Is A Lie!
The city is a lie that we tell ourselves. The crux of this lie is that we can separate human life from the environment, using concrete, glass, steel, maps, planning and infrastructure to forge a space apart. Disease, dirt, wild animals, wilderness, farmland and countryside are all imagined to be essentially outside, forbidden and excluded. (Aeon.co)
Wandering Emerson’s House
You are probably tired of wandering your house.
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Taking Down Its ‘Own Monuments,’ Sierra Club Assesses The Racism Of John Muir
Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Walt Whitman
The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit BIG IDEA project & exhibition
Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice
Thoreau, July 5th
July 5, 1840
Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.
July 5, 1845 – Walden Pond.
I know a man who never speaks of the sexual relation but jestingly, though Yesterday I came here to live. My house makes me think of some mountain houses I have seen, which seemed to have a fresher auroral atmosphere about them, as I fancy of the halls of Olympus
