I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — 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
