I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — 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
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
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature… He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents… — 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
