Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"
"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?"
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."