Home Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

— Henry David Thoreau

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

— Henry David Thoreau

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

— Henry David Thoreau

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

— Henry David Thoreau

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if…

— Henry David Thoreau

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly…

— Henry David Thoreau

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years…

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

— Henry David Thoreau

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

— Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

— Henry David Thoreau

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

— Henry David Thoreau

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further…

— Henry David Thoreau

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at…

— Henry David Thoreau