The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life,… — 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
