Henry David Thoreau, Naturalist and social critic (July 12, 1816 - May 6, 1862)

                               Easter antiphon on Psalm 26
                                          at Morning Prayer 

Lord, 

I love 
the house 
in which 
you dwell 
& the place 
where your 
glory abides. 

“Henry David Thoreau… subscribed to no organized religion. Yet there is in Thoreau something of the sage or desert father, an intense need to dispense with socially defined values and to experience life 'first hand'.”  (Give us this Day)