Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.  ~Quoted in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1980 edition, originally created by Stewart Brand; commonly misattributed to Henry David ThoreauThis quotation first appeared in the 1980 edition (p. 331) of The Whole Earth Catalog ? originally created by Stewart Brand in 1968 ? and a variant by the American Library Association, “Books will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no books,” appeared in the early 1980s. Both are in turn adapted from the line in a Gilbert Shelton Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon (“The Freaks Pull a Heist!”): Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope. Thanks walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page