I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"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."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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."
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."