I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"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?"