Thoreau Quotes

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Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. — Loudon Wainwright III
Thoreau said: "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." That is… — Donald Trump
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came… — Henry David Thoreau
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms… — Anthony Gregory
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas… — Leon Edel
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin
I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted… — David Mixner
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save… — David Sobel
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing… — Arthur C. Clarke
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! — Emile Hirsch
There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes… — Joseph Bruchac
There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your… — Paul Theroux
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. — Pico Iyer
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. — Robert Macfarlane
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said,… — Stewart Udall
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and… — Nick Kroll

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