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
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 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
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — 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
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear,… — 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
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is… — 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
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — 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
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
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
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. — 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
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
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
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of… — 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
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
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
