In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
