Faces Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful…

— Henry David Thoreau

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

— Henry David Thoreau

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the…

— Henry David Thoreau

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

— Henry David Thoreau

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as…

— Henry David Thoreau

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all…

— Henry David Thoreau

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight…

— 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

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail nowand always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures…

— Henry David Thoreau

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing…

— Henry David Thoreau

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York… Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only…

— Henry David Thoreau

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

— Henry David Thoreau

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his…

— Henry David Thoreau