Explore/HopeMindfulness A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always… Henry David Thoreau Walden, 1854 Filed under HopeMindfulness renewalpresent-momenttranscendentalism About the author Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862 · American transcendentalist, naturalist and essayist; author of Walden. Wikipedia More from Henry David Thoreau →