Fighting the Affluenza Epidemic in America

Nora Molev

B Day

First slides: Thoreau would advocate for

Second slides: Thoreau would warn us are unnecessary

“There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit.”

“There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit.”

“…I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I

built myself…”

“…I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I built myself…”

“Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!”

“Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!”

“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is

in a bird’s building its own nest.”

“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is

in a bird’s building its own nest.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

“An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may

add his ten toes, and lump the rest.”

The basics of cooking.

“An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may

add his ten toes, and lump the rest.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears

a different drummer.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears

a different drummer.”

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.”

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with

the paths which the mind travels.”

“Still, we live meanly like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men…”

“Still, we live meanly like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago

changed into men…”

“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

“The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown

establishment…”

“The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown

establishment…”

“This whole Earth we inhabit is but a point in space.”

“This whole Earth we inhabit is but a point in space.”

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