Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so… — 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
