"I have been writing and speaking for twenty-five or thirty years, and have have not now even one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not that it has not found intelligent receivers; but because it did not go forth from any wish in me to bring people to me, but rather to themselves. I delight in driving them from me . . .This is my boast: that I have no school followers. I should account it a measure of the impurity of my insight, if it did not create independence."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Photo: A hidden sun highlights bigtooth maple leaves, Redwood National Park, CA, 2011
Stephan.. thank you for sharing this incredible photo and having the insight to put Emerson's quote with it... Deeply appreciated.
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You're welcome, Moe! I believe Emerson's insight is desperately needed in our time, when "success" is judged in rather superficial ways.
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