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thicker cuticle to grow over some of the finer qualities of our nature as on the face and hands or as severe manual labor robs the hands of some of their delicacy of touch so staying in the house on the other hand may produce a softness and smoothness not to say thinness of skin accompanied by an increased sensibility to certain impressions perhaps we should be more susceptible to some influences important to our intellectual and moral growth if the sun had shone and the wind blown on us a little less and no doubt it is a nice matter to proportion rightly the thick and thin skin but methinks that is a scurf that will fall off fast enough that the natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day the winter to the summer thought to experience there will be so much the more air and sunshine in our thoughts the callous palms of the laborer are conversant with finer tissues of self respect and heroism whose touch thrills the heart than the languid fingers of idleness that is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white far from the tan and callus of experience when we walk we naturally go to the fields and woods what would become of us if we walked only in a garden or a mall even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves since they did not go to the woods they planted groves and walks of platanes where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods if they do not carry us thither i am alarmed when it happens that i have walked a mile into the woods bodily without getting there in spirit in my afternoon walk i would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society but it sometimes happens that i cannot easily shake off the village the thought of some work will run in my head and i am not where my body is i am out of my senses in my walks i would fain return to my senses what business have i in the woods if i am thinking of something out of the woods i suspect myself and cannot help a shudder when i find myself so implicated even in what are called good works for this may sometimes happen my vicinity affords many good walks and though for so many years i have walked almost every day and sometimes for several days together i have not yet exhausted them an absolutely new prospect is a great happiness and i can still get this any afternoon two or three hours walking will carry me to as strange a country as i expect ever to see a single farmhouse which i had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the king of dahomey there is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles radius or the limits of an afternoon walk and the threescore years and ten of human life it will never become quite familiar to you nowadays almost all man s improvements so called as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees simply deform the landscape and make it more and more tame and cheap a people who would begin by burning the fences and let the forest stand i saw the fences half consumed their ends lost in the middle of the prairie and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds while heaven had taken place around him and he did not see the angels going to and fro but was looking for an old post hole in the midst of paradise i looked again and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy stygian fen surrounded by devils and he had found his bounds without a doubt three little stones where a stake had been driven and looking nearer i saw that the prince of darkness was his surveyor i can easily walk ten fifteen twenty any number of miles commencing at my own door without going by any house without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do first along by the river and then the brook and then the meadow and the woodside there are square miles in my vicinity which have no inhabitant from many a hill i can see civilization and the abodes of man afar the farmers and their works are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows man and his affairs church and state and school trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture even politics the most alarming of them all i am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape politics is but a narrow field and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it i sometimes direct the traveler thither if you would go to the political world follow the great road follow that market man keep his dust in your eyes and it will lead you straight to it for it too has its place merely and does not occupy all space i pass from it as from a bean field into the forest and it is forgotten in one half hour i can walk off to some portion of the earth s surface where a man does not stand from one year s end to another and there consequently politics are not for they are but as the cigar smoke of a man the village is the place to which the roads tend a sort of expansion of the highway as a lake of a river it is the body of which roads are the arms and legs a trivial or quadrivial place the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers the word is from the latin villa which together with via a way or more anciently ved and vella varro derives from veho to carry because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried they who got their living by teaming were said vellaturam facere hence too the latin word vilis and our vile also villain this suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to they are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them without traveling themselves some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots roads are made for horses and men of business i do not travel in them much comparatively because i am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery stable or depot to which they lead i am a good horse to travel but not from choice a roadster the landscape painter uses the figures of men to mark a road he would not make that use of my figure i walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets menu moses homer chaucer walked in you may name it america but it is not america neither americus vespueius nor columbus nor the rest were the discoverers of it there is a truer amount of it in mythology than in any history of america so called that i have seen however there are a few old roads that may be trodden with profit as if they led somewhere now that they are nearly discontinued there is the old marlborough road which does not go to marlborough now me thinks unless that is marlborough where it carries me i am the bolder to speak of it here because i presume that there are one or two such roads in every town the old marlborough road where they once dug for money but never found any where sometimes martial miles singly files and elijah wood i fear for no good no other man save elisha dugan o man of wild habits partridges and rabbits who hast no cares only to set snares who liv st all alone close to the bone and where life is sweetest constantly eatest when the spring stirs my blood with the instinct to travel i can get enough gravel on the old marlborough road nobody repairs it for nobody wears it it is a living way as the christians say not many there be who enter therein only the guests of the irishman quin what is it what is it but a direction out there and the bare possibility of going somewhere great guide boards of stone but travelers none cenotaphs of the towns named on their crowns it is worth going to see where you might be what king did the thing i am still wondering set up how or when by what selectmen gourgas or lee clark or darby they re a great endeavor to be something forever blank tablets of stone where a traveler might groan and in one sentence grave all that is known which another might read in his extreme need i know one or two lines that would do literature that might stand all over the land which a man could remember till next december and read again in the spring after the thawing if with fancy unfurled you leave your abode you may go round the world by the old marlborough road when he came to grene wode in a mery mornynge there he herde the notes small of byrdes mery syngynge it is ferre gone sayd robyn that i was last here me lyste a lytell for to shote at the donne dere leave a comment posted in writing and tagged culture henry david thoreau philosophy walking wild bookmark the permalink wodwo posted on april 23 2011 by wudewasa what am i nosing here turning leaves over following a faint stain on the air to the river s edge i enter water who am i to split the glassy grain of water looking upward i see the bed of the river above me upside down very clear what am i doing here in mid air why do i find this frog so interesting as i inspect its most secret interior and make it my own do these weeds know me and name me to each other have they seen me before do i fit in their world i seem separate from the ground and not rooted but dropped out of nothing casually i ve no threads fastening me to anything i can go anywhere i seem to have been given the freedom of this place what am i then and picking bits of bark off this rotten stump gives me no pleasure and it s no use so why do i do it me and doing that have coincided very queerly but what shall i be called am i the first have i an owner what shape am i what shape am i am i huge if i go to the end on this way past these trees and past these trees till i get tired that s touching one wall of me for the moment if i sit still how everything stops to watch me i suppose i am the exact centre but there s all this what is it roots roots roots roots and here s the water again very queer but i ll go on looking ted hughes illustration by warren draper leave a comment posted in art poetry writing and tagged ahuman dark mountain poetry ted hughes uncililisation wild wildness bookmark the permalink language posted on april 19 2011 by wudewasa makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts when facts are infinite what i tried to do then is something a bit different since you cannot get the desert into a book anymore than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his net i have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as a medium than a material not imitation but evocation has been the goal t hrough naming comes knowing we grasp an object mentally by giving it a name hension prehension apprehension and thus through language create a whole world corresponding to the other world out there and so in the end the world is lost again no the world remains and it is we who are lost again round and round through the endless labyrinth of thought the maze edward abbey leave a comment posted in writing and tagged ecology language nature thoughts wild wilderness writing bookmark the permalink pan emergent a dream in the shadow of the dark mountain posted on april 16 2011 by wudewasa there are some truths which can only be glimpsed by firelight shadows hold the secret of the void scalpels of light reveal nothing of the darkness she must be embraced to be understood through the smoke and embers and the sting of burning green ash i see him goat god man his odour is my fear midwife to my prayers oh prophet of the pastures prince of arcadia lord of the lingam hairy hoary horny piper at the gate deliver us from these crowded places and return to us your sweet ahuman dreams leave a comment posted in art poetry and tagged art culture dark mountain pan poetry thoughts writing bookmark the permalink the glamour of money part 2 posted on may 8 2010 by wudewasa the following important work can and indeed should be read in conjunction with the previous piece by peter lamborn wilson which i posted as the glamour of money both works have featured on the reality sandwich website and i believe both offer a vital contribution to those of us who anticipate and indeed welcome the forthcoming post capital age the twilight of money john michael greer this article originally appeared on the archdruid report one of the least constructive habits of contemporary thought is its insistence on the uniqueness of the modern experience it s true of course that fossil fuels have allowed the world s industrial societies to pursue their follies on a more grandiose scale than any past empire has managed but the follies themselves closely parallel those of previous societies and tracking the trajectories of these past examples is one of our few useful sources of guidance if we want to know where the current versions are headed the metastasis of money through every aspect of life in the modern industrial world is a good example while no past society as far as we know took this process as far as we have the replacement of wealth with its own abstract representations is no new thing as giambattista vico pointed out back in the 18th century complex societies move from the concrete to the abstract over their life cycles and this influences economic life as much as anything else just as political power begins with raw violence and evolves toward progressively more subtle means of suasion economic activity begins with the direct exchange of real wealth and evolves through a similar process of abstraction first one prized commodity becomes the standard measure for all other kinds of wealth then receipts that can be exchanged for some fixed sum of that commodity become a unit of exchange finally promises to pay some amount of these receipts on demand or at a fixed point in the future enter into circulation and these may end up largely replacing the receipts themselves this movement toward abstraction has important advantages for complex societies because abstractions can be deployed with a much smaller investment of resources than it takes to mobilize the concrete realities that back them up we could have resolved last year s debate about who should rule the united states the old fashioned way by having mccain and obama call their supporters to arms march to war and settle the matter in battle amid a hail of bullets and cannon shot on a fine september day on some iowa prairie still the cost in lives money and collateral damage would have been far in excess of those involved in an election in much the same way the complexities involved in paying office workers in kind or even in cash make an economy of abstractions much less cumbersome for all concerned at the same time there s a trap hidden in the convenience of abstractions the further you get from the concrete realities the larger the chance becomes that the concrete realities may not actually be there when needed history is littered with the corpses of regimes that let their power become so abstract that they could no longer counter a challenge on the fundamental level of raw violence it s been said of chinese history and c...
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