Henry David Thoreau Quote

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.


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


The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and...

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and...

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and...

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and...