What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
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?"
"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!"
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"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."
"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."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."