TechWorkRamblings

by Mike Kalvas

202510041119 Walden

#wip #new

Some quotes from Walden.1 This note should probably go away in favor of individual things once recorded better.

202112291821 The things we own end up owning us

Pause! Avast! Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow? P103

Classics end of 108

Books are the treasured… 111

Loneliness relative to working p144-145

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm besides which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. P338 except criticizing travel as a way to avoid thinking or being alone. I believe travel helps one chart interior and exterior

Paragraph beginning “I learned this, …” on p341


  1. Thoreau, H. D. (2016). Walden (Macmillan Collector’s Library edition). Macmillan Collector’s Library.