When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — 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
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various… — 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
