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Wind Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
- The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
- Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
- As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an…
- The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
- The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind…
- In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the…
- When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early…
- The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.
- I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a…
- Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees,…
- We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of…
- We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to…
- Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but…
More Wind Quotes
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams
- It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry
- Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where… — Joe Barton
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. — Yogi Berra
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind… — Jello Biafra
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. — Aesop