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  1. A quotation from Thoreau

    If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  2. A quotation from Thoreau

    If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  3. A quotation from Thoreau

    If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  4. A quotation from Thoreau

    If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  5. I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

    — Henry David Thoreau

    #Stoic #Stoicism #HenryDavidThoreau

  6. A quotation from Thoreau

    The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)

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  7. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  8. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  9. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  10. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  11. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  12. A quotation from Thoreau

    It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)

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  13. A quotation from Thoreau

    It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)

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    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Bible #Christianity #Christians #hypocrisy #lipservice #NewTestament

  14. A quotation from Thoreau

    It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)

    More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Bible #Christianity #Christians #hypocrisy #lipservice #NewTestament

  15. A quotation from Thoreau

    It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)

    More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Bible #Christianity #Christians #hypocrisy #lipservice #NewTestament

  16. A quotation from Thoreau

    All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Monday” (1849)

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    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoroeau #henrydavidthoreau #change #details #era #generalities #macro #micro #particular #passageoftime #perspective #scale #time

  17. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
    -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Communication

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  18. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
    -- Henry David Thoreau

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Wealth

    #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

  19. A quotation from Thoreau

    If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)

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  20. DIE KUNST ZU LEBEN MIT WENIGER: Das RADIKALE PROJEKT von Henry David Thoreau – Von Jenseits des Geistes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPJzmAB2LE

    In einer Welt, die uns ständig dazu drängt, mehr zu besitzen – mehr Geld, mehr Erfolg, mehr Aufmerksamkeit –, stellt dieses Video eine kraftvolle Gegenfrage: Was wäre, wenn wahre Freiheit entsteht, wenn wir lernen, weniger zu brauchen? Inspiriert vom Philosophen Henry David Thoreau, der 1845 in eine selbstgebaute Hütte am Walden-See zog, beleuchtet dieses Video die zeitlose Weisheit eines Lebens mit weniger Ballast. Thoreau lebte radikale Einfachheit, nicht aus Entbehrung, sondern aus innerer Klarheit.

    #DieKunstMitWenigerZuLeben #HenryDavidThoreau #JenseitsDesGeistes #Konsumismus #Landschaften #Leben #Literatur #Materialismus #Natur #OrteRäume #Video #Walden #Wissen

  21. A quotation from Thoreau

    Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction, — a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)

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  22. “The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies … and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well.” #CivilDisobedience #HenryDavidThoreau #Minnesota

  23. A quotation from Thoreau

    No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  24. A quotation from Thoreau

    No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

    More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #appearances #clothes #clothing #conscience #earthly #ethics #facade #fashion #morality #priorities #reputation #virtue

  25. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

    — Henry David Thoreau

    #Stoic #Stoicism #HenryDavidThoreau

  26. A quotation from Thoreau

    I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  27. Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

    — Henry David Thoreau

    #Stoic #Stoicism #HenryDavidThoreau

  28. A quotation from Thoreau

    It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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  29. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
    -- Henry David Thoreau

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryDavidThoreau #Wealth

    #Photography #Panorama #Dinosaur #Tracks #Colorado

  30. Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/12/
    Mick Hall looks into the justification, precedence, thinking and tactical logic behind a longstanding means of confronting unjust systems and laws. By Mick Hall Mick Hall In Context CN at 30 Australian psychiatrist and author Dr. Niall McLaren believes…
    #Politics #China #CivilRights #Commentary #Fascism #Gaza #Nato #NewZealand #Protest #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #AntiFascism #CivilDisobedience #Dr.NiallMclaren #ErichFromm #FreedomRides #GaryChartier #HannahSwedlund #HenryDavidThoreau #JeremyMoses #JosephBray #Jr. #MahatmaGandhi #MartinLutherKing #MichaelDorf #NarcissoFascism #PalestineAction#Tyranny #UnjustLaw

  31. A quotation from Henry David Thoreau

    There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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