Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of… — 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
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — 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
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — 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
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — 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
