...youthful roaming, Clemons found peace in an interesting Texas town. When Henry David Thoreau wrote that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to leave alone," he seems to describe Clemons's philosophy of living. Thoreau drove life into a corner...

...Thomas Francis Neale, a drifter from New Zealand. He took as his life's motto Thoreau's words of wisdom, "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." For the better part of twenty-five years he lived a relatively idyllic life alone on his tiny atoll,...

...or pines should be left to stand before the door . . . 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. (n, 1) The parody of Locke's labor theory of value is obvious enough, here as elsewhere in Walden,...

...continue to pare away a little at a time to see what I can really do without. How did Thoreau put it? "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. " I believe that. The less 1 have, the calmer and richer I feel Every year I go through my possessions...

...phrase "freedom from want" as having everything we want. To Thoreau, real freedom meant wanting little: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." > Solitude is an important part of everyday life. According to Thoreau, "The man who goes alone can...

...practically. Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less? A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. So far, Father's selections are about what one would expect, and I've long assumed that the second...

...content is the wealth of nature." — Socrates "We make ourselves rich by making our wants few." — "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." — Thoreau "There are no riches above the riches of the health of the body." — Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus...

...settlers' expansion. Thrifty practicing thrift; provident; economical; thriving; flourishing; prospering A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. That man is richest whose pleasures are the...

...Emerson \vas an American writer and poet known for such classic works as Nature, Society, and Solitude. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things...he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Henry David Thoreau was an American writer and philosopher. The human race has one really...

...brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink. If he is one to pass on the old ascetic adage that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone" (T, 387), Thoreau is also one to exclaim unrestrainedly, "We can never have enough oí nature ( J,...