Sun Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The sun is but a morning star.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the…

— Henry David Thoreau

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

— 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

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which…

— Henry David Thoreau

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for…

— 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

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 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

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought…

— Henry David Thoreau

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a…

— Henry David Thoreau

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every…

— Henry David Thoreau

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us…

— Henry David Thoreau

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven…

— Henry David Thoreau

Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture…

— Henry David Thoreau

It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars…

— Henry David Thoreau

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies…

— Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only…

— Henry David Thoreau

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full…

— Henry David Thoreau

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and…

— Henry David Thoreau