Author name: Mary Anne Smrz

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”                           -Henry David Thoreau, Walden This past Christmas, 2025, my mom was all about making […]

“We need the tonic of wildness…we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY  “The earth I tread on is not a dead inert

“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode.”  -Henry

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a

“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn? To what purpose

“Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau and the Art of Life, posthumously      These

“A sky without clouds is a meadow without flowers, a sea without sails.” -Henry David Thoreau, Walden Isn’t it amazing

“The life in us is like the water in the river.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Walden      Panta Rhei…means everything flows, according

“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.”  -Henry David Thoreau, Walden        “Every time a bell rings,