City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"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."
"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."