"We must learn to re-awaken and keep ourselves awake

Not by mechanical aids, but by the infinite expectation of the dawn

which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to

elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture or to carve a statue

and so to make a few things beautiful.

But it is far more glorious to carve and paint the atmosphere and medium

through which we look.

Which morally we can do.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Everyman is tasked to make his life

even in its details worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

Thoreau

The Baking of the Bread

 

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