It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — 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
