When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — 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
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — 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
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No very black melencholy can come to he who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.....” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — 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
