Ocupation: Author
Life: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Birthday: July 12
Death: May 6
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster
topic: Clouds, Two, Long, Two Masters