The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? — 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
The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — 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
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — 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
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have… — 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
