Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived. Perchance he is not confounded… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of… — 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
