When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.


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

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left...

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left...

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left...

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left...