A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — 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
