When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — 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
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having… — 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
