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
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing… — 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
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
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — 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
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
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several… — 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
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into… — 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
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
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
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — 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
