Walking Walden with Thoreau #writers #readalong #song #literature #thoreau #walden

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

[00:00:05]All men want not something to do with but something to do or rather something to be.

[00:00:13]>> Things do not change.

[00:00:18]>> I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company even with the best is soon whereism and dissipating. I love to be alone.

[00:00:34]>> I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

[00:00:45]>> Live in each season as it passes.

[00:00:47]Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

[00:00:53]>> Things do not change.

[00:00:58]One farmer said to me, "You cannot live on vegetables only, for they give you nothing to make bones with." He said this while he was walking behind his oxen, which with vegetable made bones jerked him in his dirt breaking plow along in spite of every obstacle.

[00:01:16]Things do not change.

[00:01:21]I learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with unexpected success.

[00:01:36]Things do not change, we change.