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
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man,… — 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
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home. — 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
