“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
― Walden and Civil Disobedience
― Walden and Civil Disobedience
“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body—has a spirit—is organic—and fluid to the influence of its spirit—and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me”
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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
― Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
― Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
― Life Without Principle
― Life Without Principle
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