This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a "better land," without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too...

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too...

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too...

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too...