...not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. 1 Everv man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. 2 Johu Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running...

...ignoring the urgencies of bodily life but working to wrest a significant form from these very1 materials: "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones." (147) Through our bodies we find ourselves immersed in a social and natural world, subject to internal...

...us. RABINDRANATH TAGORE We are still being born and have as yet but a dim vision. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are constantly invited to be what we are. HENRY DAVID THOREAU ERNST TOLLER In...

...which leads to success, which leads to increased self-esteem.... You get the picture. Reflection Quote We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. —Henry David Thoreau Action Prompt Assume responsibility for your creatorship. It is one of those...

...sexual innuendo puts a gloss on Thoreau's comment in Walden: "Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...all sculptors and painters, and our material is our flesh and blood and bones." Moreover, Kerouac's emphasis on natural awareness is reminiscent of Emerson's...

...reference to Paul's Letter to the Corinthians, Thoreau insists that "Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead." Thoreau closes the chapter with a fable about John Farmer. Undoubtedly, he means John the Farmer, that...

...most important thinkers through the ages and their most influential writings THE WISDOM OF THOREAU "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." —Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau's essays on individualism and human nature served as the...

...Muchacha gulps frijol, nacho, fajita, much tequila. Next day, stomachache gone, girl wants taco. 168. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. — Thoreau 169. Twins turn four; family has eighty kids over. Birthday bash result: neighbors phone...

...but as the dwelling of the lord of the dwelling. — Shankara Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the God he worships, after a style...and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. — Henrv David Thoreau The affirmation...

...from what is otherwise a remarkably similar passage in Thoreau: "Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...our material is our own flesh and blood and bones." Henry David Thoreau, Walden (New York: New American Library, 1980), 150, emphasis mine. For Thoreau,...