Walden Quotes
12 quotes by 7 authors
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,…
— Jonas Mekas
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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
— Edward Carpenter
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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
— Mark Haddon
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GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and…
— Mary Oliver
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[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for…
— Ray Bradbury
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Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy…
— Edward Carpenter
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I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. I fathomed it…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Walden Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 12 Walden Quotes as follows: