"Der Mensch ist umso reicher, je mehr Dinge er liegen lassen kann." Henry David Thoreau

 Ich hatte diesen Satz, als ich ihn in einer Zeitung las, kurz in Verdacht, ein Pseudo-Thoreau-Zitat zu sein, aber der Verdacht war falsch.

 Henry David Thoreau, 1854

• " dann ließ ich wieder alles liegen, vielleicht brachliegen, denn der Mensch ist um so reicher, je mehr Dinge er liegenlassen kann."
  Henry David Thoreau: "Walden: oder Leben in den Wäldern" (Link)

•  "I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be soon improved, which some might have thought too far from the village, but to my eyes the village was too far from it. Well, there I might live, I said; and there I did live, for an hour, a summer and a winter life; saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter through, and see the spring come in. The future inhabitants of this region, wherever they may place their houses, may be sure that they have been anticipated. An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow, perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. "
  
  Henry David Thoreau: "Walden", "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"   (Link)

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Quellen:
Henry David Thoreau: "Walden: oder Leben in den Wäldern" (Link)
Henry David Thoreau: "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" 2. "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"  (Link)