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
I at length reached the last house but one, where the path to the summit diverged to the right, while the summititself… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the impressions which themorning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most persevering mortal canpreserve the memory of its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that, with referenceto any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we drew near to Old town Iasked Polis if he was not glad to get home again; but there was no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This was the kind of man thatwas at home there; for, as near as I can learn, that has never been the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab's or the Indian's? When I think of the benefactors of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, becausehis peers did not exist. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than anydespot's, yet to man's daily life they rarely seem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Marching is when the pulse ofthe hero beats in unison with the pulse of Nature, and he steps to the measure of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and isfirst committed by, the powerthat makes and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me,… — 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
