Summer Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

— Henry David Thoreau

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“This is June, the month of grass and leaves … already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me.”

— Henry David Thoreau

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if…

— Henry David Thoreau

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford…

— Henry David Thoreau

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

— Henry David Thoreau

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity…

— Henry David Thoreau

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich,…

— 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

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument…

— 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

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head…

— Henry David Thoreau

In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly…

— Henry David Thoreau

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

— Henry David Thoreau

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

— Henry David Thoreau

“not sit while the wind went by. Is the literary man to live always or chiefly sitting in a chamber through which…

— Henry David Thoreau

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and…

— Henry David Thoreau

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his…

— Henry David Thoreau

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson…

— Henry David Thoreau

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!…

— Henry David Thoreau

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes…

— Henry David Thoreau