Henry David Thoreau Bones Quotations

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.