SIMPLE TRUTH , photo taken by Haneul , 2007
Man's life must be of equal simplicity and sincerity with nature, and his actions
harmonize with her grandeur and beauty. -- Thoreau
I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind
whispering among the reeds. It will be a success if I shall have left myself
behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there. Will it not be employ-
ment enough to watch the progress of the seasons? -- Thoreau
Occasionally, when I feel energetic, I gather firewood and draw spring water.
I love the drops which fall, tok-tok, along the green of a single spray of fern,
and nothing is so light as my stove. -- Basho
Yield to the willow
all the loathing and all the desire
within your heart.
-- Basho
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to
practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep
and suck out all the marrow of life. -- Thoreau
The morning wind forever blows;
The poem of the world is uninterrupted,
but few are the ears that hear it.
-- Thoreau
My solitude shall be my company
and my poverty, my wealth.
-- Basho
The scent of orchids
perfumes the wings
of a butterfly.
-- Basho
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me
that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that
one. -- Thoreau
Going nowither; where travelers are not too often to be met; where my spirit is free;
where the walls and fences are not cared for; where your head is more in heaven
than your feet are on earth. --- Thoreau
When observed calmly,
all things have their fulfillment.
-- Basho
The humblest fungus betrays a life akin to our own.
It is a successful poem in its kind.
-- Thoreau
