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Environment Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
- We can never have enough of Nature.
- It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
- We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
- A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
- The improved means to the unimproved end.
- He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
- Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny…
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness…
- Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.…
- Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be…
- Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
- Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
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- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
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