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
Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — 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
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God. — 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
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — 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
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
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly… — 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
“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
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — 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
