Eye Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The eye is the jewel of the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

— Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

— Henry David Thoreau

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

— Henry David Thoreau

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

— Henry David Thoreau

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have…

— Henry David Thoreau

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full…

— Henry David Thoreau

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground…

— 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

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become…

— Henry David Thoreau

Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested…

— Henry David Thoreau

For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes…

— Henry David Thoreau

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as…

— Henry David Thoreau

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

— Henry David Thoreau

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must…

— Henry David Thoreau

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect…

— Henry David Thoreau

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within…

— Henry David Thoreau

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many…

— Henry David Thoreau

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than…

— Henry David Thoreau

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous…

— Henry David Thoreau

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these…

— Henry David Thoreau