Thoreau vs the Shopping Cart

THOREAU

That every purchase is bought with life. The cost of a thing is the amount of life you exchange for it - and most men trade their days for trinkets they never use.

THOREAU

Simplify, simplify. A man is rich in proportion to what he can let alone - go confidently toward less, and meet the life you actually own.

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