“My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“July 6. I wish to meet the facts of life—the vital facts, which are the phenomena or actuality the gods meant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — 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
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.” — 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
