The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter — 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
