In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity Ye princes, keep your realms And circumscribed power Not wide as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — 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
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As surely as the sunset in my latest November shall translate me to the ethereal world, and remind me of the ruddy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried… — 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
