
" Sometimes I would rather get a transient glimpse or side view of a thing than stand fronting to it … The object I caught a glimpse of as I went by haunts my thoughts a long time, is infinitely suggestive, and I do not care to front it and scrutinize it, for I know that the thing that really concerns me is not there, but in my relation to that … "
Henry David Thoreau, from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 10, eds. Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen (Houghton Mifflin, 1906)(Source: memoryslandscape, via stoicremains-deactivated2017102)










