Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Consumerism

• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clothes, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Garden, Clothes

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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