Henry Thoreau

Vor einigen Monaten habe ich mir das Buch "Walden" von Henry David Thoreau gekauft.
Ich bin begeistert von den Schilderungen dieses herausragenden Schriftstellers und möchte gerne einige Passagen aus "Walden" mit Euch teilen.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to Heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe Malaria all the way."

"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably
cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.
No amount of gold or respectability would in the least
redeem it,-- dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!!
But alone in the distant woods or fields,
in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,
even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,
when a villager would be thinking of his inn,
I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,
and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.
I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent
to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.
I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,
grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day
about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it.
I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America,
out of my head and be sane a part of every day."