Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."
"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."