The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — 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
