Lake Oswego High School - Lakers Log Yearbook (Lake Oswego, OR)

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 This path winds through lives that have come before. People have found their life in material things ... in nature. Progress. Man’s industrial prowess. We have, in our infinite wisdom, built cities atop of cities . . . we’ve built factories where thousands of people earn their living in a dark hole. . . We've built a great, giant, cement box which daily spews out poisonous gases and smoke. This is the beauty of Progress. Nature. . . “The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest. common with all the spiritual magnificance they shed on the marble deserts of Egypt. . . Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. ’’ (Emerson) Nature . . . “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, ... to put to rout all that was not life. . . to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. . . and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine mean-ess of it .. . or if it were sublime, to know it by experience. ” (Thoreau) How a man spent his life is told by what he has left behind. Many have left behind waste, a sodden cup, but I wish to leave a perfect golden leaf whose veins stand out and melt in the sunshine. 8