Quotes on history

“By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property…the landscape is deformed.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“We can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

Henry David Thoreau
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From Oppenheimer to Pop Culture: A Comprehensive History of Nuclear Quotes

Oppenheimer
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“In Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

Oscar Wilde
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“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”

Oscar Wilde
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde
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