Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — 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
We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days… Farmers' sons will stare by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall… — 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
