"I am reminded by my journey how..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”
“It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.”
More on Travel
“To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.”
“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”
“Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.”
More on Discovery
“Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.”
“A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.”
“Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.”