...more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which normally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. HENRY DAVID THOREAU RELIGION Arnold Toynbee said, "There is none alive today who knows enough to say...

...this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Goodness is a perpetual quality, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble;...

...seconds worth of distance run. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it', Rudyard Kipling, // 'To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts', Henry David Thoreau, Walden 'Do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of, Benjamin Franklin...

...this field. To my colleagues at Hospice of New York. You exemplify Henry David Thoreau's statement: "To affect the quality of the day — that is the highest of arts." I am honored to be in the company of such remarkable people. Of course, thank you to my husband Rex,...

...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, fully aware of "the essential facts...

...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.16 More than a century later, poet Diane Ackerman follows Thoreau's advice by plunging fully into...

...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. (90) What starts as an effort to make a language and a voice with which to live thus becomes itself...

...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. (Walden, 1971, p. 90) The primacy of individual agency, the character of self-determination, and the...

...a statue, andso to mahe afew objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carie and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the da\, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN Imagine this. You are living in a...

...and give a lecture — can do anything. Or in the simplest terms and in one of his best sentences, "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Why, then, should life end in counting and measuring and labeling according to Gray's Anatomy? It is...