“Keep your accounts on your thumb nail”*

by chuckofish

Yesterday was National Simplicity Day so here’s some Thoreau:

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 11 March 1856

I concur. What do you think?

[The photo is Thoreau’s Cove in 1908. U.S. Library of Congress]