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The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's
Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Pages
On Experience
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Who is old
enough to have learned from experience? [Journal, 21 March
1842]
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The value of
any experience is measured, of course, not by the
amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of
it. [Journal, 26
November 1860]
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In the summer
we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as
the squirrel of nuts―something for conversation in winter
evenings. [Journal, 4
September 1851]
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Surely one may
as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for
one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and
damp―are they not as rich experience as warmth and
dryness? [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,
"Thursday"]
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I think that
no experience which I have today comes up to, or is
comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. [Journal, 16 July 1851]
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Note on the Text:
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Source:
Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry
David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
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