“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify! Simplify! Henry David Thoreau” — Jane Catherine Rozek Copy Share Image
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
“My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A” — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he’s with me. No. More like I am with… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He ate arugula (“rocket,” the old farmers called it) so strong it made his eyes water, like a paragraph of Thoreau.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau” — Scott Leopold Copy Share Image
“Thoreau’s that indicates if you follow your dreams, “You will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister.… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“I try to be honorable. I know that's embarrassing to hear. It's embarrassing to say. But I believe most of the nonsense… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new,… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“It's hard to explain, but it's related to me know that for every moment of beauty this place gives me, I probably… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There is an of-quoted passage in Walden, in which Thoreau exhorts us to find our pole star and to follow it unwaveringly… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Thoreau’s writings feel more alive to me than any thing that I’ve ever read. When I read anything by Thoreau, I see… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that… — Phillip Connors Copy Share Image
“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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