Wtf I'm a transcendentalist now

Seriously though this book may have changed my life. His criticism of coffee aside, I think Thoreau is bang on

>"Not till we are completely lost, or turned around do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."

>>8906786
Proust constantly read and reread Thoreau's works and journals.

>>8906824
I can see why

>>8906824
Thoreau, Whitman, and Emerson should be mandatory reading for those that are depressed (like me ;_;).

>>8906955
I had no idea Whitman wrote prose and nonfiction. I don't read much poetry because I find it difficult, but I might check out some of his essays. Emerson's already on my to-read list (Kierkagaard too ;_;).