{"product_id":"cost-of-living-thoreau-walden-journal","title":"Cost of Living — Thoreau Walden Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eA journal built for the arithmetic Thoreau actually cared about — not money, but what you give your life to get it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA literary journal featuring Henry David Thoreau’s “The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it…” from Walden. Literary objects by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it…\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThoreau kept meticulous journals — 14 volumes, nearly two million words over his lifetime. He wrote in them daily, tracking observations, costs, ideas, the exact depth of Walden Pond on different days. The journals weren't a record of what he thought. They were where he figured out what he thought. \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e was distilled from them over nearly a decade of revision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote on the cover is from \"Economy\" — his audit of what things actually cost in units of life. Writing is its own version of that audit. You find out what something is worth to you by how much of yourself you're willing to spend working it out on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead the full story behind this quote: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/blogs\/journal\/the-soul-becomes-dyed-what-marcus-aurelius-and-thoreau-actually-said\"\u003eThe Soul Becomes Dyed: What Marcus Aurelius and Thoreau Actually Said\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Henry David Thoreau collection: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/cost-of-living-tee\"\u003eCost of Living Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/awake-tee\"\u003eAWAKE. Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/touchstones-tee\"\u003eTouchstones Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/touchstones-mug\"\u003eTouchstones Mug\u003c\/a\u003e. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/thoreau\"\u003efull Thoreau collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote runs as a single block of text — four lines, no hierarchy, no ornaments. The ellipsis at the end is Thoreau's: he was writing about the economics of attention, and the sentence trails open on purpose. Attribution sits smaller below. The cover is the argument: how much life does this journal cost you, and is it worth it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover bound journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80 lined, cream-colored pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 5.5\" × 8.5\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilt-in elastic closure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRibbon page marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpandable inner pocket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who works things out by writing them down. The person who journals because thinking on the page is more honest than thinking in their head. Anyone who understands that the act of writing is itself a form of accounting — for time, for attention, for what matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrite what it's worth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHenry David Thoreau, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1817–1862, Concord, Massachusetts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent two years and two months in a self-built cabin at Walden Pond — then spent the rest of his life writing about what he learned there\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalden's opening chapter, \"Economy,\" is a detailed audit of what things actually cost in units of life exchanged — one of the most precise pieces of American prose ever written\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 44 of tuberculosis; his last documented words were \"moose\" and \"Indians,\" which is exactly on brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644092813406,"sku":"9874375_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Cost_of_Living_Journal_Henry_David_Thoreau.png?v=1776123329","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/cost-of-living-thoreau-walden-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}