"The tragedy begins, not when there is
misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood"
-A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
WALDEN PLAYLIST
Simplicity’s Prayer
‘Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal
simplicity... with Nature herself.’
-Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for"
The Leavetaking ‘Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track,
then.’
-Walden, "Sounds" Day at Walden Pond
‘A lake is the earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the
depth of his own nature.’
-Walden, "The Ponds" Perpetual Dawn ‘To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day
is a perpetual morning.’
-Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for" Neighbor to the Birds ‘I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned
one, but having caged myself near them.’ -Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for" River is Wide "The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year
higher than man has ever known it..."
-Walden, "Conclusion" Silent Love ‘...the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but
when silence is not understood.’ A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Solitude’s Companion
‘I never found a companion so companionable as solitude.’
-Walden, "Solitude" A Waltz in the Woods ‘Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a
snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.’ Journal, January 5, 1856 Lake of Light
‘A lake, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself...’
-Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" Uncommon Hour ‘If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected
in common hours.’
-Walden, "Conclusion" Quiet Desperation
‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation’
-Walden, "Economy’ Behind the Farthest Star Men esteem truth remote, behind the farthest star... But all these times and
places and occasions are now and here.
-Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for" Different Drummer If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.’
-Walden, "Conclusion"
