pond skimming

besides the famous quotes of henry david thoreau, i dog-eared all of these from walden: "how many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!  the book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones."  "i rejoice that there are owls."  "this is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore."  "solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."  "grow wild according to thy nature."  "morning is when i am awake and there is a dawn in me.  to be awake is to be alive."  i also learned that an ear of wheat in Latin is spica, from spe which means hope.  grain from granum or gerendo to bear.  in 1993 i read this book.  in 2012 the book read me and dawn hopes on...