I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward… — 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
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
