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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

Dream, Time, Memories

1841 Journal entry, 19 Feb.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, People, Age

Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal”

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Sea, Land

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Politics, Election

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Character, Government

Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Fall, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.

Henry David Thoreau

Time, Nature, Rain