Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature… — 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
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The respectable folks-- Where dwell they? They whisper in the oaks, And they sigh in the hay; Summer and winter, night and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — henry david thoreau Copy Share Image
Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect… — 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
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
