When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with… — 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
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — 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
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.” — 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
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate. — 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
