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Natural Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
- Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you…
- A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
- How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
- As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
- When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules…
- Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
- When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first…
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
- Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,…
- Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is…
- Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,…
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