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- Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau
- It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. — Loudon Wainwright III
- Thoreau said: "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious… — Donald Trump
- I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats
- Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the… — Henry David Thoreau
- I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a… — Anthony Gregory
- Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them,… — Leon Edel
- Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin
- I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for… — David Mixner
- I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask… — David Sobel
- Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke