Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long >>

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in >>

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain >>

Quotations about Farming and Farmers

Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. >>

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be >>

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in >>

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.

Thoreau, Henry David