Good Quotes: Henry Thoreau

"I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times."

Henry Thoreau

P.S. We refer to Henry Thoreau without his middle name as that is how he was referred to us in Helen and Scott Nearing's book, The Good Life.
Image: Robert Shetterly

Comments (8)

Yeah. Although there seems almost be no time of year that you can't find watermelon these days, if it's not summer, I tend not to eat it.

posted by Curtis on 2005-09-29 12:48:20

One word: tomato

posted by Frank on 2005-09-29 13:11:03

Second word:peach

posted by luigi on 2005-09-29 13:34:21

apples...in the fall when they are really fresh and you pick them from the trees. bubbling over in a crisp or apple pie. taking a tractor out to the trees and sitting on bunches of hay while you eat your apple cider doghnut. or if you can't get the tractor/orchard experience, walking around the green market in Union Sq. with a paper cup of steaming hot apple cider, looking at pumpkins and the changing leaves.

posted by christina on 2005-09-29 13:50:43

Exception - Vodka. It has no season. Thank goodness.

posted by Lori on 2005-09-29 14:42:03

Mmmmm...now I'm thinking apple martini :)

I love fall..I just bought apples at the farmers market the other day and they were SO much tastier than when you just pick them up at the supermarket.

posted by Christine on 2005-09-29 14:55:33

I love this quote. I keep a list of things I love about each season. I added the quote to the top of the page.

posted by Michelle on 2005-09-29 22:04:25

This is a variation on a quote from Shakespeare:

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
Loves Labour's Lost

posted by Tim Donahue on 2005-10-02 23:07:35