Thoreau - Books CarvingABOUT THIS CARVING Full Inscription: Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Thoreau Origins: We used an old Roman stone carving letter style befitting the formality and timelessness of Thoreau's thought and coupled it with a torch, the historic symbol of enlightenment from ancient Greek mythology and the story of Prometheus. While our first customer for this carving was an author, to date, every

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he recounts a visit to America during which

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" - John Muir

University of Philadelphia

encapsulating what he learned during his two year

accepted a position as the second of four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889 and

We coupled it with a botanically-correct representation of a thorny branch from the actual plant Biblical scholars have identified as the one his Roman captors used to make the thorny crown (ziziphus spina-christi)

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Origins:  We have friends who have this piece displayed on their mantle

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