Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge… — 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
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the… — 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
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — 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
