Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Culture

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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Sheep, Culture, Literature

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Culture, Rich

Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Henry David Thoreau

Beer, Culture, Use

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Progress, Culture

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.71, Courier Corporation

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

Henry David Thoreau

Hoe, Culture, Bogs

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau

Book, Doe, Culture

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社