Henry David Thoreau Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Birthday: July 12
Death: May 6
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
source: Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406
topic: Knowledge, Thinking, Gone, Geographers
