Fire Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

— Henry David Thoreau

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

— Henry David Thoreau

Fire is the most tolerable third party

— Henry David Thoreau

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

— Henry David Thoreau

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

— Henry David Thoreau

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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