The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — 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
