The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. — 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
“It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — 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
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. — 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
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — 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
Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
