"The rule is to carry as little..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The rule is to carry as little as possible.
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“I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.”
“If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?”
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
More on Simplicity
“My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.”
“I want someone to say, "I love you and that's all I really know." That's the girly girl in me.”
“There's nothing more difficult than a line.”
More on Minimalism
“One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."”
“How many things I can do without!”
“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'”