Doors Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

— Henry David Thoreau

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

— Henry David Thoreau

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this…

— Henry David Thoreau

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…

— 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

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis…

— Henry David Thoreau

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their…

— Henry David Thoreau

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors…

— Henry David Thoreau

I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it…

— Henry David Thoreau

In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly…

— Henry David Thoreau