“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.”
Emerson, Nature
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
A new book argues that America’s forests and streams provide far more value than they cost to support.
“The rights of posterity are more important than the desires of the present.” — Fredrick Law Olmsted.
Out of almost 30,000 people who applied for a forgiveness program, just 96—less than 1 percent—had their debt erased. And it gets worse.
Huh? It’s almost like one class of people doesn’t want another class of people to access to higher education?
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Dean’s List 