My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
