As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day! — 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
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers. — 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
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
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
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
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
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man.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
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
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — 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
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now… — 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
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“not sit while the wind went by. Is the literary man to live always or chiefly sitting in a chamber through which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx)… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature… — 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
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer… — 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
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and… — 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
