Henry David Thoreau Quote

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.


The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (ed. 1803)


A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and...

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and...

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and...

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and...