Best Thoreau Quotes

43 Thoreau quotes by 34 unique authors

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. — Jon Krakauer
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as… — Wendell Berry
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then… — Pearl S. Buck
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how… — Pico Iyer
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about… — Wendell Berry
I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick... — Kami Garcia
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out… — Paul Auster
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population… — Jonathan Kozol
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry… — Robert Hass
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me… — Pico Iyer
Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long… — Robert Bateman
I shall write something beautiful, profound..... I have of late, yet wherfore I know not....... Wait.....that is Shakespeare.......ummm....... I know.... I went to the woods… — Eric Nickel
Henry David Thoreau ?Many men go fsiihng all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.??If today were a fish I'd… — Felix
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. --Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. --Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. --Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music… — Henry David Thoreau

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