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"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."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
"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."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."