“If you walk in the woods for love of them … you could be regarded as a loafer. But if you … shear off those woods and make the earth bald … you are deemed an … enterprising citizen.”
~Henry D Thoreau.
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Henry David Thoreau: Disobedience
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau.
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Henry David Thoreau: What do you see?
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ”
—Henry David Thoreau.
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Henry David Thoreau: Freedom and the law
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ”
—Henry David Thoreau.
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Thought
English: Photograph of American educator and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). From the NYPL Digital Gallery. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. ”
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Henry David Thoreau: Truth
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.”Henry David Thoreau, “Walden,” the Conclusion
English: Henry David Thoreau, photograph taken in August 1861 and published circa 1879, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Edited image from Library of Congress item LC-USZ61-361 (b&w film copy neg.). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Henry David Thoreau: Burry words…Brrr…
Henry David Thoreau – Stencil (Photo credit: isobrown)
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. –Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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