Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — 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
