Health Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

As for health, consider yourself well.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

— Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

— Henry David Thoreau

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

— Henry David Thoreau

At least let us have healthy books.

— Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

— Henry David Thoreau

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

— Henry David Thoreau

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

— Henry David Thoreau

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

— Henry David Thoreau

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!…

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“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

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

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

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

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

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

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it…

— Henry David Thoreau