Spring Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The seasons and all their changes are in me.”

— Henry David Thoreau

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

— Henry David Thoreau

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

— Henry David Thoreau

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

— Henry David Thoreau

Spring-an experience in immortality.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at…

— Henry David Thoreau

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

— Henry David Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

— Henry David Thoreau

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

— Henry David Thoreau

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

— Henry David Thoreau

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

— Henry David Thoreau

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos…

— Henry David Thoreau

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs…

— Henry David Thoreau

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually…

— Henry David Thoreau

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

— Henry David Thoreau

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

— Henry David Thoreau

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

— Henry David Thoreau

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

— Henry David Thoreau

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