- That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
New International Version
- What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Henry David Thoreau (plato.standford.edu)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being. He sought to revive a conception of philosophy as a way of life, not only a mode of reflective thought and discourse.