Water Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

— Henry David Thoreau

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Life in us is like the water in a river.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of…

— Henry David Thoreau

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