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Your Quotes for 12 July 2005 - Henry David Thoreau

The sage of Walden Pond was born on this day in 1817 at Concord, Massachusetts. Henry David Thoreau wasn't exactly an anarchist, but he wanted nothing to do with government - either to regulate his life or to regulate the lives of others. He spent years in quiet contemplation, and recommended that pattern for happiness and satisfaction, though such a life hardly seems possible today.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

All good things are wild, and free.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Things do not change. We change.
     - All from Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

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