As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.


Walden (ed. 1882)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as...

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as...

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as...

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as...