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.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"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."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."