Pioneers Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

10 Pioneers quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau’s ten brief lines about pioneers capture his transcendental view of forging new paths, offering a compact source of inspiration.

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Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

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Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

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There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

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This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men…

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We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another…

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I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always…

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The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;…

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In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his…

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The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son…

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Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that…

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

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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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