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The Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Page: Experience
  • Who is old enough to have learned from experience? [Journal, 21 March 1842]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
     

    A Note on the Text: Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
     

 

November woods (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, 1906)

Revenge is most unheroic. — "Sir Walter Raleigh"

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