Oaks Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

9 Oaks quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau’s reverence for oaks is captured in nine concise reflections. The passages convey his contemplative style and love for nature, giving a quick yet thoughtful window into his woodland musings.

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As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

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I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in…

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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

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Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the…

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I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any…

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I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may…

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,…

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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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