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Ren Adams is a professional artist and writer currently living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The bulk of her work is done with traditional Chinese brush painting techniques, a centuries old practice of using ground charcoal and water to create delicate worlds on paper. An ideal brush painting captures the spirit, or “Qi,” of the subject, not just what it looks like. Ren also teaches art & Eastern philosophy courses through the University of New Mexico Continuing Education department. She has been painting and sketching for over 20 years and is a southern California native.

    
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"There are some things which God may afford to smile at; men cannot."

(Journal III, vol. 9, February 1, 1852, p. 267)




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Page 101
"Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise ‘til noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveler’s wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time."

(Walden, "Sounds," pp. 123-124)




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Page 109
"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is the earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

(Walden, "The Ponds," pp. 206-207)




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Page 287
"The poet's relation to his theme is the relation of lovers."

(Journal III, vol. 9, January 30, 1852, p. 253)




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