“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 Copy Share Image
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ... — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
