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Place 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…
- The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
- When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as…
- Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with…
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
- We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process,…
- Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money…
- How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
- Man is but the place where I stand ...
- In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
- I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or…
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;…
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to…
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
- All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
- Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place…
- Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
- Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be regarded as the…
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