In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at… — 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
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant 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
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact… In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — 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
