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Needs Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
- We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
- Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon…
- Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to…
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
- Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he…
- But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
- The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
- We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
- We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
- If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- 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…
- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would…
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under…
- 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…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey