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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…
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
- The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
More Fields Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining,… — Drew Barrymore
- To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the… — David Beckham
- The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside… — Roberto Benigni
- Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you… — Annie Besant
- But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. — Niels Bohr
- I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. — Usain Bolt
- When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. — Napoleon Bonaparte