Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to be expressed merely, studies nature as a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“O Prince, our eyes contemplate with admiration and transmit to the soul the wonderful and varied spectacle of this universe. The night… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — 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
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth… — 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
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Marching is when the pulse ofthe hero beats in unison with the pulse of Nature, and he steps to the measure of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves… — 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
