How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.Henry David Thoreau
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation
Henry David Thoreau
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
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