 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for e years from 1757 to 1762. By a strange series of misfortunes the Autobiography was n My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage: and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Leonard N. Neufeldt - 1989 - 229 lapas
...who cannot understand what it is to be in charge of their own affairs, and who cannot comprehend that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone" (Walden, p. 82). Although Thoreau did not abandon his laissez-faire principle, a shift in emphasis... | |
 | Jeanne Logue - 1995 - 174 lapas
...unique individualism, his love of nature, his disrespect for conventionality, and his contention that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." (Throughout Cooper's life he had an utter disregard for money.5) Of even greater influence were Charles... | |
 | 1995 - 436 lapas
...economy like ours, founded upon the creation of artificial needs, "a man is rich," Thoreau observed, "in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone" (55). As a farmer, Berry is keenly aware of his ties to the natural world. Just as he strives to redefine... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 lapas
...from a mercenary point of view is not aware how beautiful they are. (July 22, 1860) ************** proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 1 My imagination carried me so far that I even had the relusal of several farms — the refusal was... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1996 - 200 lapas
...community. The most famous elements of this lesson concern voluntary poverty and simplicity of lifestyle: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone";106 "Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth";107 "Simplicity simplicity, simplicity! I... | |
 | Theodore Steinberg - 1995 - 225 lapas
...land. [175] Then he ventured on before his fingers got "burned by actual possession." As he wrote, "Man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."29 By Thoreau's standards, the modern American landscape is a very poor one indeed. {176] NOTES... | |
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I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 
