Beauty Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

— Henry David Thoreau

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

— Henry David Thoreau

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

— Henry David Thoreau

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

— Henry David Thoreau

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain…

— Henry David Thoreau

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted…

— Henry David Thoreau

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation…

— Henry David Thoreau

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses…

— Henry David Thoreau

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted…

— Henry David Thoreau

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had…

— Henry David Thoreau

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of…

— Henry David Thoreau

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which…

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political…

— Henry David Thoreau

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

— Henry David Thoreau

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better…

— Henry David Thoreau

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side…

— Henry David Thoreau

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all…

— Henry David Thoreau

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years…

— Henry David Thoreau