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Fields Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time…
- Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,…
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
- When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a…
- Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute…
- You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for…
- Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken…
- I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more…
More Fields Quotes
- Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces… — Rick Riordan
- To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard,… — Vince Lombardi
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field,… — Hank Aaron
- Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields. — Archie Manning
- I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. — Joseph Heller