Swamps Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

9 Swamps quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s eye for wilderness turns swamps into a canvas for thought. This short set reveals his reflections on the murky and the profound.

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I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Henry David Thoreau

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The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country,…

Henry David Thoreau

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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious…

Henry David Thoreau

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Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over…

Henry David Thoreau

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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.…

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Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now…

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“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp……

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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