Tree Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Even trees do not die without a groan.

— Henry David Thoreau

Trees indeed have hearts.

— Henry David Thoreau

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

— Henry David Thoreau

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

— Henry David Thoreau

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

— Henry David Thoreau

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

— Henry David Thoreau

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

— Henry David Thoreau

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors…

— Henry David Thoreau

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail…

— Henry David Thoreau

Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

— Henry David Thoreau

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect…

— Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do…

— Henry David Thoreau

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,…

— 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

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort…

— Henry David Thoreau

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,…

— 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

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into…

— Henry David Thoreau

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied…

— Henry David Thoreau

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed…

— Henry David Thoreau

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by…

— Henry David Thoreau

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,…

— Henry David Thoreau