“Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify! Simplify! Henry David Thoreau” — Jane Catherine Rozek Copy Share Image
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. --Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
“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
“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. —Henry David Thoreau CLAIRE” — Aleatha Romig 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
“I’ll go live in the woods,” said Malone. “You’ll be lonely,” said Sutherland. “Even Thoreau went to town in the afternoon to… — Andrew Holleran 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
“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
“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask… — David Sobel 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 shall write something beautiful, profound… I have of late, yet wherfore I know not… Wait…that is Shakespeare…ummm… I know… I went… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW… — 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
“History is a sad testament to the limitations of external change, or changing things from the outside. A dime a dozen and… — Sol Luckman 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
“[Thoreau's] famous night in jail took place about halfway through his stay in the cabin on Emerson's woodlot at Walden Pond. His… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The creature was very young. He was alone in a dread universe. I crept on my knees and crouched beside him. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The American Anti-Slavery Society, on the other hand, said the war was “waged solely for the detestable and horrible purpose of extending… — Howard Zinn 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
“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
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. — Edward Carpenter 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
“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“Not till we have lost the world,” wrote Thoreau, “do we begin to find ourselves.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
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