Nov 19, 2008

Famous Quotes | A tanned skin is something more...

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Walking” (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 226, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Author, Naturalist, Nature, Philosopher, Race