City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"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."
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."