Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world…There is naked Nature, inhumanly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — 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
