Winter Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

— Henry David Thoreau

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

That grand old poem called Winter

— Henry David Thoreau

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

— Henry David Thoreau

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...

— Henry David Thoreau

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

— Henry David Thoreau

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

— Henry David Thoreau

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or…

— Henry David Thoreau

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,…

— Henry David Thoreau

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if…

— Henry David Thoreau

Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated…

— Henry David Thoreau

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period…

— Henry David Thoreau

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who,…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation… His recent tracks still give variety…

— Henry David Thoreau

In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly…

— Henry David Thoreau

Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A driving snow-storm in the night and still raging; five or six inches deep on a level at 7 A.M. All birds…

— Henry David Thoreau

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

— Henry David Thoreau

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is…

— 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

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king…

— Henry David Thoreau