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Home Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes…
- Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
- 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 have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
- Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
- Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer…
- Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business.…
- This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
- It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places…
- It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his…
- 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,…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand…
- 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 cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of…
- As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
- Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the…
- I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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- I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
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- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
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- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen
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