Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — 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 tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 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
