Henry David Thoreau — "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger o…"

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau Modern · Civil disobedience, Walden

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Life Without Principle

Date: 1863

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