“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day… — 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
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions… — 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
The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more… — 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
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — 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
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — 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
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit… — 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
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless… — 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
When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — 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
