I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — 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
