It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — 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
