How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"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."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."