Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. -” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx)… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“not sit while the wind went by. Is the literary man to live always or chiefly sitting in a chamber through which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the… — 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 itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and… — 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
“This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement. By the wary independence and aloofness of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — 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
