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Our Own Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
- We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
- 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…
- What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
- Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his…
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
- On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that…
- The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann