Henry David Thoreau Quote

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.


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


There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up...

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up...

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up...

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up...