The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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 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 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
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — 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
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
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — 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
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — 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
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — 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
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. — 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
“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
“A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. -” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — 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
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