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Earth Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

80 Earth quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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A vine clings to the elm, showing how life and earth are tightly linked. The quotes describe dawn, birds, rivers, and wind as part of the planet’s daily rhythm. They also compare how we see the sky to how our minds work, reminding us that nature mirrors thought.

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New earths, new themes expect us.

Henry David Thoreau

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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

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“We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.”

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“Is not this the broad earth still?”

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

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We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a…

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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me… I milk the sky and the…

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Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is…

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in…

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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out…

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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth…

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I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,…

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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of…

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You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake.…

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The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at…

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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates…

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White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have…

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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,…

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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man…

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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil…

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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and…

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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and…

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Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which…

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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied…

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Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven…

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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the…

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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

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I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a…

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“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear,…

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I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary…

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Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually…

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in…

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We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

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