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A Quote by Watt Key

I'm no Thoreau. — © Watt Key

I'm no Thoreau.

Watt Key

Watt Key

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Watt Key

Watt Key
American - Author
Born: October 28, 1970

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

Stewart Udall

Stewart Udall

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Stewart Udall

Stewart Udall

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

Robert Hass

Robert Hass

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

Henry Seidel Canby

Henry Seidel Canby

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

Emile Hirsch

Emile Hirsch

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

Quentin S. Crisp

Quentin S. Crisp

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

James McBride

James McBride

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

Loudon Wainwright III

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