Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — 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
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and… — 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
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
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature,… — 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
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature… He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — henry david thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — 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
