“There is a low mist in the woods— It is a good day to study lichens.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill. — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe… — 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
The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — 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
“There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — 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
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — 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
