lundi 6 décembre 2010

Snippets of Walden

"Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs."

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."

"The squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way."

"the imagination give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes."

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