There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1873)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral...

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral...

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral...

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral...