Day 21 of Autism Acceptance Month
"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, and be able to give a true
account of it in my next excursion."
-Henry David Thoreau
See that picture? That's Walden Pond. How peaceful and healing it must be to live there-and Henry David Thoreau thought so as well. Thoreau knew what he needed-which was peace, solitude, and nature-and he got it! A reclusive anarchist who enjoyed expressing his thoughts and feelings through his writing, Thoreau is an example of the kind of mindset that really thinks outside of the box and opens people's eyes.
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