Nature Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

— Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Library is a wilderness of books.

— Henry David Thoreau

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine,…

— Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a…

— Henry David Thoreau