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"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"City life - millions of people being lonesome together."