The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company… — 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
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow… — 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
