Did Henry David Thoreau say “Things do not change; we change.”?

Did Henry David Thoreau say “Things do not change; we change.”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Henry David Thoreau. Source and location below.

… ble. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. The philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought." Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many inf …
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau, ¶560 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #205 · source

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