On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull… — 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
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. — 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
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. — 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
