"It is best to lay our plans..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
More on Youth
“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”
“The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.”
“Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.”
More on Future
“You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.”
“Learn as if you will live forever.”
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”