So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man’s life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Walk to Wachusett” (1843), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 137, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
