Fighting the Affluenza Epidemic

Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"

"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”

"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.“

“Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.“

"None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty."

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."”

"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

“Men have become the tools of their tools."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears."

"Why should we live with such hurry and waste life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry."

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry."

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