“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — 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
