Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Quote 10, Tentative

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
- Walt Whitman

This quote is saying that poverty is a resault of tentative things or things that were started, but never finnished.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

quote 9, Halcyon

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman

this quote is saying that life is ment to be halcyon, and that the best way to live is to grow in open air and eat & sleep in nature with the earth.

quote 8, Tepid

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
-Walt Whitman
this quote is saying that every moment should not be thought of as tepid, it should be considered as a miracle, or a time of happiness weather it is light or dark.

Monday, November 20, 2006

quote 7, Scrupulous

It is a just person who disobeys an unjust law.
-Plato

A just or scrupulous person is the type of person who disobeys the unjust laws.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Quote 6, Scandal

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
-Henry David Thoreau

This quote is saying that there are a lot of people trying to cut out evil by the branches, but only one is trying to take out the roots of the scandals of evil.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Quote 5, Reprehensible

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
-Henry David Thoreau

This quote is saying what should we respect more the law or what's right. I respect what's right more because if a law is not good then I am not going to respect it, I will do what's right for me.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Waldon

1.

i went to the woods becuase i wish to live delibertely.

2.

i wanted to live in deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
3.


Still we live meaningly, likr ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men
4.


Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

5.


Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

6.


I cut my way first through a foot of snow, and then a foot of ice, and open a window under my feet.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Quote #4, Replenish

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau

i think that this quote is saying that it is okay if you set yourself up for high standards or replenish you r castle in the air, but you just have to put things under that will keep you up, the foundations under them.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

what i want to experience

In my life i want to experience a vacation to hawaii.
I want to be able to experience graduating from college.
Another thing that i want to experience in life is being able to have a family of my own.

Quote # 3, Parched

Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard

I dont really understand what this quote is saying, but maybe it is talking about how we choose to spend our days is the same way that we will choose to spend the rest of our lives.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Quote # 3,Oppressive

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau

This quote is saying that any one can make an oppressive rule, but it would take a fool to follow it.