This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1868)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before...

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before...

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before...

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before...