Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my… — 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
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — 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 fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though… — 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
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