I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.


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

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system,...

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system,...

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system,...

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system,...