The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web… — 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
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — 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
