Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.
There would be this advantage in travelling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer travellers' mistakes.
Is not he hospitable who entertains thoughts?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 12, 1851
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. See
May 21, 1851("Only that thought and that expression are good which are musical.");
June 22, 1851 ("To the sane man the world is a musical instrument. The very touch affords an exquisite pleasure.");
January 15, 1857 ("What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps?");
November 30, 1858 ("I can only think of precious jewels, of music, poetry, beauty, and the mystery of life . . . ")
Traveling in your own country. . . . See
August 6, 1851 ("It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village");
September 7, 1851 ("The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.”);
April 16, 1852 ("Many a foreigner who has come to this town has worked for years on its banks without discovering which way the river runs.”).
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