Thoreau

Famous quotes containing the word thoreau:

“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It suggested, too, that the same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)