naturegeek on Nostr: This pairs tightly with Emerson's "Self Reliance": ...
This pairs tightly with Emerson's "Self Reliance":
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm#SELF-RELIANCE
Thoreau was more about action and Emerson more about ideas, so they complement each other well.
Some quotes from the above:
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius."
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm#SELF-RELIANCE
Thoreau was more about action and Emerson more about ideas, so they complement each other well.
Some quotes from the above:
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius."
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."