Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — 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
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — 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
