Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit not a fossil earth, but a living earth compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather
Henry David Thoreau
I hear many condemn these men Founding Fathers because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority
Henry David Thoreau
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
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