Showing posts with label 19th century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th century. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2009

Undisguised


"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman











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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Indecent


"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!--ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent."

---Walt Whitman





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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Forbidden


"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his notebook, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"

---Henry David Thoreau



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Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Path


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Courage


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

---Robert Louis Stevenson

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