Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? -… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the… — 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
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings… — 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
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
