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Land Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and…
- Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially…
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking…
- We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
- A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never…
- Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of…
- If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal…
- The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though…
- New earths, new themes expect us.
- I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his…
- 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…
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and…
- All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk…
- 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.…
- When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express theiropinion on some subject which is vexing to…
More Land Quotes
- In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. — Rudolf Arnheim
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that… — Abu Abbas
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. — Philip James Bailey
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. — Brigitte Bardot