Thoreau

Famous quotes containing the word thoreau:

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)