It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — 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
