Adventure Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

— Henry David Thoreau

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

— Henry David Thoreau

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take…

— Henry David Thoreau

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes…

— Henry David Thoreau

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our…

— Henry David Thoreau

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

— Henry David Thoreau

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am…

— 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

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

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…

— Henry David Thoreau

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor…

— Henry David Thoreau

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back…

— 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

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught…

— Henry David Thoreau