World Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The world laughs in flowers.

— Henry David Thoreau

The world rests on principles.

— Henry David Thoreau

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The world is but a canvas to our imagination”

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

— Henry David Thoreau

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

— Henry David Thoreau

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

— Henry David Thoreau

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

— Henry David Thoreau

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

— Henry David Thoreau

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be…

— Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it…

— Henry David Thoreau

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and…

— Henry David Thoreau

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed 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

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere… We should…

— Henry David Thoreau

Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New…

— Henry David Thoreau