Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage. — 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
