In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!


The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (ed. 1803)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already...

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already...

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already...

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already...