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title: "42 Natural Quotes By Henry David Thoreau"
description: "42 Natural quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more Natural sayings from other authors."
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> [How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/how-sweet-is-the-perception-of-a-new-natural-fact/)

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> [What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-would-human-life-be-without-forests-those-natural-cities/)

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> [What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-the-singing-of-birds-or-any-natural-sound-compared-with-the/)

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> [“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-man-is-rich-in-proportion-to-the-number-of-things-which-he-can/)

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> [Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/having-reached-the-term-of-his-natural-life-mwould-it-not-be-truer-to/)

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> [Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/art-is-not-tame-and-nature-is-not-wild-in-the-ordinary-sense-a/)

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> [“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-man-must-find-his-occasions-in-himself-it-is-true-the-natural-day/)

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> [Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/inexpressibly-beautiful-appears-the-recognition-by-man-of-the-least/)

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> [As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-in-many-countries-precious-metals-belong-to-the-crown-so-here-more/)

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> [Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/give-me-a-country-where-it-is-the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-for/)

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> [A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-truly-good-book-is-something-as-wildly-natural-and-primitive/)

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> [A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-truly-good-book-is-something-as-natural-and-as-unexpectedly-and/)

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> [It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-true-we-are-such-poor-navigators-that-our-thoughts-for-the-most/)

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> [Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/commerce-is-unexpectedly-confident-and-serene-alert-adventurous-and/)

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> [This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/this-was-sheer-idleness-to-my-fellow-townsmen-no-doubt-but-if-the/)

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> [To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-him-whom-contemplates-a-trait-of-natural-beauty-no-harm-nor/)

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> [When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-i-hear-the-hypercritical-quarreling-about-grammar-and-style-the-2/)

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> [Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/rivers-must-have-been-the-guides-which-conducted-the-footsteps-of-the/)

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> [Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-nowhere-east-or-west-live-yet-a-natural-life-round-which-the-vine/)

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> [The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-natural-historian-is-not-a-fisherman-who-prays-for-cloudy-days/)

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> [Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/books-of-natural-history-make-the-most-cheerful-winter-reading-i-read/)

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> [For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/for-my-part-i-feel-that-with-regard-to-nature-i-live-a-sort-of-border/)

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> [I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-heard-of-a-man-lost-in-the-woods-and-dying-of-famine-and/)

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> [Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/perchance-coming-generations-will-not-abide-the-dissolution-of-the/)

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> [Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/books-are-the-treasured-wealth-of-the-world-and-the-fit-inheritance/)

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> [Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/is-not-the-midnight-like-central-africa-to-most-of-us-are-we-not/)

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> [Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/doubtless-we-are-as-slow-to-conceive-of-paradise-as-of-heaven-of-a/)

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> [Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/unto-a-life-which-i-call-natural-i-would-gladly-follow-even-a-will-o/)

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> [Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/individuals-like-nations-must-have-suitable-broad-and-natural/)

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> [I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-think-that-the-farmer-displaces-the-indian-even-because-he-redeems/)

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> [How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/how-important-is-a-constant-intercourse-with-nature-and-the/)

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> [It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-impossible-to-give-a-soldier-a-good-education-without-making/)

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> [Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/let-us-not-underrate-the-value-of-a-fact-it-will-one-day-flower-in-a/)

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> [For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/for-my-own-part-i-commonly-attend-more-to-nature-than-to-man-but-any/)

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> [How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/how-insupportable-would-be-the-days-if-the-night-with-its-dews-and/)

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> [Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/yet-poetry-though-the-last-and-finest-result-is-a-natural-fruit-as/)

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> [The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-hounding-of-a-dog-pursuing-a-fox-or-other-animal-in-the-horizon/)

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> [All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/all-the-moral-laws-are-readily-translated-into-natural-philosophy-for/)

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> [Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/friendship-takes-place-between-those-who-have-an-affinity-for-one/)

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> [Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/books-of-natural-history-aim-commonly-to-be-hasty-schedules-or/)

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## More by Henry David Thoreau

> [If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-ever-i-did-a-man-any-goodof-course-it-was-something-exceptional/)

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> [Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/our-inventions-are-wont-to-be-pretty-toys-which-distract-our/)

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> [“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-say-they-know-many-things-but-lo-they-have-taken-wings-the-arts/)

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> [I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-not-afraid-of-praise-for-i-have-practiced-it-on-myself/)

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> [“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/all-voting-is-a-sort-of-gaming-like-checkers-or-back-gammon-with-a/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/this-spending-of-the-best-part-of-one-s-life-earning-money-in-order/)

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> [As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-for-doing-good-that-is-one-of-the-professions-which-is-full/)

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> [A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-traveler-who-looks-at-things-with-an-impartial-eye-may-see-what-the/)

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> [In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/in-proportion-as-our-inward-life-fails-we-go-more-constantly-and/)

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> [I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-solitude-two-for-friendship/)

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> [The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-still-youthful-energies-of-the-globe-have-only-to-be-directed-in/)

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> [Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/concord-s-little-arch-does-not-span-all-our-fate-nor-is-what/)

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> [The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-lumberers-rarely-trouble-themselves-to-put-out-their-fires-such/)

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> [“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-he-has-obtained-those-things-which-are-necessary-to-life-there/)

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> [Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/wealth-is-measured-by-the-level-of-experience-in-all-aspects-of-life/)

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                        "text": "Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea breezes; of the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the migrations of the rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.",
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