Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we… — 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
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its… — 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
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. — 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
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me… I milk the sky and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. — 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
