Animals Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

— Henry David Thoreau

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...

— Henry David Thoreau

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons…

— Henry David Thoreau

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after…

— Henry David Thoreau

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed…

— Henry David Thoreau

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear,…

— Henry David Thoreau