Journey Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

23 Journey quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s musings on the path we walk appear in twenty‑three concise statements. They echo his love of nature and introspection, giving you a thoughtful pause whenever you consider where you’re headed.

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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

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A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

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Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more…

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I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark…

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We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our…

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“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind…

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I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others…

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Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I…

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Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the…

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The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along…

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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days…

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There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so…

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in…

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We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose…

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“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had…

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“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a…

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“It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.”

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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