The blog of Henry David Thoreau

I really enjoy this blog, which posts a different entry from Thoreau's journals every day, from the same day of the year only a few odd years later. This is what was posted from Oct. 5, 1857:

"It is well to find your employment and amusement in simple and homely things. These wear best and yield most. I think I would rather watch the motions of these cows in their pasture for a day, which I see now headed all one way and slowly advancing,—watch them and project their course carefully on a chart, and report all their behavior faithfully,—than wander to Europe or Asia and watch other motions there; for it is only ourselves that we report in either case, and perchance we shall report a more restless and worthless self in the latter case than in the first."

I love the thought that no matter what we report, we are reporting ourselves. A very good insight to remember when reading anything written by anyone!