They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."