Henry David Thoreau a-t-il vraiment dit « Things do not change; we change. » ?

Henry David Thoreau a-t-il vraiment dit « Things do not change; we change. » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Oui. Le texte figure dans des œuvres attribuées à Henry David Thoreau. Source et emplacement ci-dessous.

… 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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