If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
— Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863
Posted September 2, 2010 at 8:08pm in Henry David Thoreau Thoreau Quote Labour Enterprise Idleness
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