Affluenza: The Modern Phenomenon

JUNN PARK

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” –Thoreau, Walden

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” –Thoreau, Walden

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Things do not change; we change.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Things do not change; we change.” -Thoreau, Walden

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” -Thoreau, Walden

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.” -Thoreau, Walden

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” -Thoreau, Walden

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” -Thoreau, Walden

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” -Thoreau, Walden

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” -Thoreau, Walden

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Thoreau, Walden

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Thoreau, Walden

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Thoreau, Walden

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Thoreau, Walden

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” –Thoreau, Walden

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” –Thoreau, Walden

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