It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long… — 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
