One says to me, “I wonder that you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg to-day and see the country.” But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety … | Henry David Thoreau Continue reading Grading the Whole Surface of the Planet Henry David Thoreau
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil … | Henry David Thoreau Continue reading Be a Columbus of the Mind Henry David Thoreau
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. | Henry David Thoreau Continue reading There Are a Thousand Hacking at the Branches of Evil Henry David Thoreau (1854)
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. | Henry David Thoreau Continue reading Men Will Believe What They See. Let Them See Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. | Henry David Thoreau Continue reading Aiming Above Morality Henry David Thoreau
Two voices from different times point to the same truth: trying to control others rarely works, while leading by example creates the space where real change begins. Continue reading Let Them Be, Let Them See Leading by example in a conversational age
