Thoreau

Famous quotes containing the word thoreau:

“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle-roof perforated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no doubt, of the frequent fires in Maine, of which we hear so much on smoky days in Massachusetts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)