more emerson

barbara's mother, loel says that
if she was marooned on a desert island,
the one author she would take is emerson.

he would definitely be in my satchel..
here's why -

" everything good is on the highway.
the middle region of our being
is the temperate zone.
we may climb into the thin and cold realm
of pure geometry and lifeless science,
or sink into that of sensation.
between these extremes is the equator
of life, of thought, of spirit, of poetry -
a narrow belt.
moreover, in popular experience,
everything is on the highway."

"a foolish consistency
is the hobgoblin
of little minds.
speak today what you think today
in words as hard as cannon-balls,
and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks
in hard words again,
though it contradict
everything you said today."

"there are no fixtures in nature.
the universe is fluid and volatile.
permanence is but a word of degrees.
...every thing looks permanent
until its secret is known."

see what we mean?